Why Are Dems Dodging Questions About The DSA’s Radical Platform?

Back in June, we called on the mainstream media to pressure Democrats into answering questions about the increasingly radical Democratic Socialists of America platform.

“With the rapid takeover of their party by the Democratic Socialists of America underway,” we wrote, “it’s time for every Democrat to answer for what the DSA believes in.” (See: “10 Questions Every Democrat Must  Now Be Made To Answer.”)

We’re glad that one news network, at least, has taken us up on our advice.

Fox News lately has been prodding prominent Democrats to answer whether they agree with planks in the DSA’s latest platform, which includes proposals such as defunding the War Department, nationalizing corporations, and abolishing the presidency, the Senate, and the Supreme Court.

It’s been almost comical to watch them evade the Fox reporters, or mumble that they aren’t members of the DSA, or regurgitate word salads.

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said when asked about the new agenda. “I haven’t read the proposal.” That’s despite his having endorsed several DSA candidates.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., refused to even acknowledge the presence of the reporter.

California Rep. Pete Aguilar said, “I’m not a member of the DSA, so I can’t comment on any documents that they put out.”

Except Aguilar also told Fox News Digital “that he was ‘not at all’ worried about the wave of far-left, socialist candidates complicating the Democratic Party’s agenda. ‘I look forward to working with all our colleagues who run as Democrats,’ Aguilar said.”

When Fox asked Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez if she supported the DSA’s call to eliminate the Senate, her barely coherent response was:

“I mean, again, I’m not running for uh, for, any larger office presently. That is, of course, a constitutional question. Um, and I … that, that’s a constitutional question.”

When asked again if she supported getting rid of the Senate as an institution, AOC mumbled about how “I don’t support elements of the institution that were founded on, uh, on Jim Crow.”

Fox did manage to get one Democrat, Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar, to denounce the DSA.

“As a Democrat, I reject what the DSA is doing. I read their platform, and it is radical,” Cuellar said. “They’re trying to use the Democratic Party. They’re not talking about those radical positions. They’re talking about affordability and housing, things that sound good. But we as Democrats, we reject that radical faction,” Cuellar said.

Cuellar is right. As our latest I&I/TIPP Poll shows, the American public overwhelmingly rejects key planks of the DSA’s increasingly radical platform. Even Democrats aren’t supporting them. (See: “Americans Reject The DSA’s Policy Platform: I&I/TIPP Poll.”) Yet the party seems resigned to letting socialists take over.

Unfortunately, Fox appears to be alone in asking Democrats about the DSA’s platform. The rest of the news media are, apparently, happy to help the DSA hide its agenda … until it’s too late.

— Written by the I&I Editorial Board

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