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The DSA's Four-Step Revolutionary Playbook
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Drawing directly on Vladimir Lenin's own writings about purging moderate communists, Shapiro maps the DSA's strategy onto a historical revolutionary template. Step 1: take over the deepest blue areas with radical candidates and replace even far-left incumbents. Step 2: claim those victories represent a national wave, even if turnout was low, and let social media do the amplification work — aimed at 12 to 30-year-olds living online. Step 3: threaten every moderate Democrat with primary challenges until they capitulate. Shapiro invokes Dostoevsky's 'The Demons' to illustrate how radicals have always exploited the sentimentality of liberal fellow-travelers. Step 4: rinse and repeat. The goal isn't to win the presidency immediately — it's to capture a major party, which gives any movement at least a 40% shot at national power. [1] — Ben Shapiro "The DSA is running a Lenin-style playbook to capture the Democratic Party from within. Step 1: take over deep-blue districts with radical c…" 14:30 Jamie Harrison's plaintive tweet asking DSA candidates not to use Democratic Party infrastructure is dismissed as 'a little late.'
The DSA is running a Lenin-style playbook to capture the Democratic Party from within. Step 1: take over deep-blue districts with radical candidates. Step 2: declare a national movement. Step 3: terrorize moderate Democrats into submission. Step 4: repeat until one major party is theirs — and then wait for your shot at the White House.
Daria-Liza Chevalier, who won the NY-13 Democratic primary, was a co-founder of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, the group associated with Mahmoud Khalil that called for the eradication of Western civilization.
According to CNN, congressional primary winner Daria-Liza Chevalier deleted approximately 3,600 tweets between 2018 and 2022.
All three candidates endorsed by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a TV ad aired during the NBA Finals won their Democratic congressional primaries.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani ran an ad during the NBA Finals backing three radical congressional candidates. All three won — Daria-Liza Chevalier in NY-13, Brad Lander in NY-10, and Claire Valdez in NY-7. Shapiro calls it the beachhead the DSA needed.
