CNN Says It’s Not Communism. David Sacks Says Look at Their Platform.
Trump called the Democratic socialist candidates …. “hardcore Godless communists” and said they were “the greatest threat to our country since its founding.”
The primary victories of three socialists in New York’s Democratic congressional primaries last week sent shockwaves throughout the political world. They demonstrated that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s upset victory was no fluke and that his brand of democratic socialism is gaining traction, particularly among college-educated voters in their twenties. Since then, Democratic leaders and progressive talk show hosts have been bending themselves into pretzels to minimize the fallout. But the implications of those victories could prove far more significant than their defenders are willing to acknowledge.
Consider this scenario: Democrats reclaim the House in November with a razor-thin majority. Speaker Hakeem Jeffries needs every Democratic vote to pass a key piece of legislation without Republican support. That would give New York’s three democratic socialists enormous leverage. What price might they demand in exchange for their votes?
Although academics would vehemently disagree, democratic socialism is a euphemism for communism — a rhetorical rebranding to make it more palatable to the electorate.
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On Friday, President Donald Trump warned of the growing threat of communism in the U.S. during a speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference. The event was held at the Washington Hilton, the same venue where two months earlier, a shooter tried to assassinate Trump and members of his Cabinet at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Trump called the democratic socialist candidates who won their primaries in New York — and will likely win their races in November — “hardcore Godless communists” and said they were “the greatest threat to our country since its founding.”
Here are some excerpts from his remarks (via RealClearPolitics):
Communism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it’s very easy. I’d be — I’ll be honest, I think I’d be the greatest communist in history. I’d give free rent.
Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, you don’t have to pay any rent. From now on, anybody wants a house, don’t worry about it, just pick the house you want. Everybody gets free food. Everything is free from this point forward.
Everyone is going to vote for me. The problem is, after two or three years, the country is a disaster area. The country fails. They always do. It always does. So easy to sell. That first year, boy, you’re the most popular.
It’s happening right now in New York and California. But you’ll start living in squalor. You’ll live in squalor. There will be no food. There will be no housing. There will be no military. There will be no law and order. There will be no nothing. … You’ll be a third-world inhabitant in every way, and everyone will suffer or die. You’ll suffer or die. That’s what happens.
For thousands of years, it’s been happening by different names. Thousands of years. I would be — I’m telling you, I’d be the greatest communist in history. It would be so easy. You wouldn’t have to work. You could stay home. The problem is, a couple of years go by, the whole place collapses. Always does. Always has.
Trump: Communism is very easy to sell. It destroys everything, but it’s very easy. I’ll be honest, I think I’d be the greatest communist in history.
I’d give free rent. Ladies and gentlemen, from now on, you don’t have to pay any rent. From now on, anybody who wants a house,… pic.twitter.com/Uw7L6S85QS
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Contrary to the Left’s claims that Trump was exaggerating — a charge he certainly invites at times — he was right. The slow, insidious embrace of communist ideology in America, which began during the Cold War, is real, and it has now reached the point where it can no longer be ignored.
Although there is no difference between what the New York primary candidates are proposing and what a communist insurgency would promise, the legacy media, as always, are pushing back hard against Trump’s attempt to equate democratic socialism with communism.
CNN host Kaitlan Collins declared Trump’s response to be “borderline apocalyptic.” She told viewers, “While Democrats themselves have been wrestling with what Tuesday night means for the direction of their party, socialism, much less democratic socialism, is not communism.”
Kaitlan Collins: "socialism much less Democratic Socialism is not communism.
You saw the President he stayed up past 2:30 in the morning at one point he post quote America the beautiful will never be a communist country.
He made a prediction that borderline apocalyptic." pic.twitter.com/QrAouI1eVO
— Winter (@LeftyWinter) June 27, 2026
But Collins and the others who are downplaying the significance of last Tuesday’s political earthquake in New York are flat-out wrong.
Venture capitalist David Sacks, a current co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, addressed this issue during the Friday edition of the All-In podcast, which he co-hosts. He itemized the New York democratic socialists’ stated proposals. The following excerpts focus on the structural and constitutional changes the candidates advocate.
[Note: These proposals begin after the extensive list of free government benefits outlined in the DSA platform such as free medical care, free college tuition, etc.]
After reviewing the list, one would be hard-pressed to argue that democratic socialists are not communists.
Here is a partial transcript of Sacks’ remarks:
But let’s look at what these DSA candidates stand for. So, let’s look at what their platform is.
They actually say they want to abolish the Senate.
They want to abolish the carceral state, that means basically police forces and prisons.
They want to abolish ICE and grant amnesty for all. They do not support any deportations whatsoever.
They want to replace the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary that is chosen by and subordinate to Congress, which basically now, I guess, this means this House. And with respect to House elections, they want to abolish the electoral college.
They want to replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy.
And they want to expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional representation and ranked-choice voting in all elections, which would be a total makeover of our constitutional system.
They want to free Palestine.
They want public ownership of major corporations.
They want to defund the Department of War.
This is a very radical organization, and you would laugh at a lot of these types of proposals, but you can’t really laugh at it anymore, because these guys are taking over the Democratic Party, and you can see the Democratic establishment is in complete panic right now, because they have lost control of the party to Zohran Mamdani and his allies.
Sacks addresses Darializa Avila Chevalier, the most radical of the three, whom he describes as “an unemployed 32-year-old PhD candidate. She’s never had a job; she’s been in college for 10 years, I guess, writing this PhD thesis, and I think even by DSA standards, she might be kind of a lunatic.
“She has declared that she wants to end western civilization — she wants to eradicate western civilization. … She attended a rally one day after Oct. 7 celebrating the slaughter of Israeli civilians. … She calls white women ugly colonizers.”
Sacks continues his itemization, leaving his fellow co-hosts visibly stunned. The remainder of his remarks can be heard in the video below.
Whether one agrees with Trump’s characterization of the Democratic socialists as communists or not, the victories in New York cannot be dismissed as an isolated local story or written off as overheated campaign rhetoric. If Democrats regain the House with only a narrow majority, the influence of these lawmakers could extend far beyond their districts, giving them leverage over the party’s legislative agenda. As for the platform Sacks outlined, I’ll leave it to readers to decide whether it represents merely an aggressive form of democratic socialism — or something far more radical.
🚨 David Sacks on the Socialists Taking Over the Democratic Party
“The Democratic establishment is in complete panic right now because they have lost control of the party to Zohran Mamdani and his allies … They want to introduce something much different, and it's going to look… pic.twitter.com/TXwGnVvFah
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Well socialism isn’t traditional communism but they are close cousins. It doesnt matter. Socialism is bad enough. The government controls everything and owns everything. “Democracy” exists only until 1 party rule is implemented. Then you have a pure authoritarian regime which is what socialists want because they know better than you what’s good for you.
Have to go back to Lenin for reference….. communism is socialism in a hurry. Same destination… different speeds. Depends on how much power and where it is directed to get there. Looking at Marxist and Islamist take overs….. these are minority groups given access to power. The Dems thought giving the socialists power would bolster the old guard’s party…. wrong…. the Dems are wanting power so much that they are risking it all to hope to regain control later on. Ask Weimar Germany how that went also. Mao wrote of how power is taken…. Dems are on the same path…. gun control.
Many Dems are fellow travellers with their DSA Comrades. They will more openly embrace the DSA goals and values if they see it as a means to acquire power.
Heard recently, you may vote your way into socialism but you’ll have to shoot your way out.
CNN delenda est.
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”
Usually attributed to Alexander Fraser Tytler. While some challenge the attribution, that’s a distraction to shift focus away from the content. Voting requires less effort than working. Many people want to live in NYC, but don’t have the resources, so they vote Communist to get what they want for free. The comedian Jonathan Winters did a skit in the 1960’s where he played the role of a Third-World dictator, threatening the US. “Give us aid or we will go Communist.”
Sacks was very thorough. His video deserves to be shared widely.
The Democratic Party, just like the Republican Party, is a private club that sets its own rules, selects its leaders, and can choose who is part of the private club. Remember that the Republicans threw George Santos out of the party and also voted to remove him from the House of Representatives, based upon actions, he did during the campaign, most notably lying about his background and miss using campaign funds. It was argued that the Republicans should not do that because it made the margin for the House of Representatives one last seat.
The Democrats have to decide whether these people belong in their party or not. They already have all the tools and rules in which to do so. I doubt they will choose to do so, and thus the entire Democratic brand will be tainted by these individuals.
You keep posting that. It is not the truth. As someone who once was a party official tasked with keeping bogus candidates off our ballot, let me inform you that the question of who does or does not belong party is often in the hands of a public official who has nothing to do with your party, such as a Secretary of State, or a registrar. In many cases, the only thing a party can do to an unapproved candidate is spend precious money to run ads against him, and refuse to provide any funding or support for his campaign.
I am reading the Frank Dikotter book on the take over of China by the communists. At the time of the Maoist revolution, the percentage of the population that was communist was the same as in the US. Mao was brought into a coalition with the Nationalist during as after the war, in part by demand of the US (Gen Marshall leading the way). Looking at the take over of countries, appeasement led to power and power led to takeover through arms. The key has been communism…. but as in Iran… the Islamist killed the Marxist… better at the game. We have seen Antifa/BLM as the Red Guard… now the DSA has their Red Rabbits militias.
This is what makes the vile, greasy, subversive, mendacious, duplicitous and evil nazi/communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist agitator-fifth columnist pukes so despicable and dangerous — their rhetoric, ideas and policies are destructive enough, to peoples’ lives, freedoms and livelihoods, but, when they are fairly called out on the intrinsic stupidity, impoverishment and wicked nature of their beliefs and policies, they don’t possess the honesty to admit that the track record of their historical and contemporary comrades and fellow travelers is one of profound failure, in terms of human deaths, murders, suffering and impoverishment.
“particularly among college-educated voters in their twenties” aka future Kulaks.
The only difference between communism and socialism is that socialism is a long, steady march towards authoritarianism, while communism runs pedal-to-the-metal straight for it.
“Whether one agrees with Trump’s characterization of the Democratic socialists as communists or not”
You don’t have to agree. Socialism is nothing more than the necessary first step to full blown communism. It’s not like that’s ever been a secret. The entire purpose of socialism is to set the stage for communism.
We need to stop being afraid of the word communism. It’s evil and destructive and anyone who attempts to put this country on that path needs to be called what they are.
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