Democratic Socialists Deliver a Stark Warning to Christians
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) scored major victories in New York City’s June 23, 2026, primaries, with backing from the city’s Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani. Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier captured the 7th and 13th Congressional Districts. Aber Kawas won New York State Senate District 12. And former DSA member Brad Lander defeated incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman in the 10th Congressional District.
Socialists' momentum isn’t limited to New York. Denver voters chose 29‑year‑old Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros over longtime Rep. Diana DeGette in Colorado’s 1st District. Kiros ran on an aggressively progressive, anti-corporate, and anti-Israel platform, calling Israel’s actions in Gaza “genocide” and in Lebanon “ethnic cleansing,” according to the Associated Press.
These wins aren’t routine political shifts — they mark a dramatic break from traditional Democratic Party politics and signal a transformation of the party. Orchestrated by elites claiming to speak for the common folk, this transformation marks the beginning of an alarming insurrection that could take us virtually anywhere.
Even Democrats are sounding alarms. Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania posted on X: “Anti-Israel. Anti-America. Anti-Western Civilization. Why am I the only Democrat in the U.S. Senate that refuses to excuse this or defend any of those self-identified communists?”
Taken together, DSA’s victories reveal a deeper truth: the Democratic Party is being radically transformed. This shift becomes unmistakable when you examine (1) the Democratic Socialists of America platform and (2) the rhetoric of leaders such as the aforementioned Darializa Avila Chevalier.
The DSA platform, Workers Deserve More!, outlines a sweeping political and economic overhaul aimed at replacing America’s capitalist system with either a democratic socialist republic or an authoritarian socialist experiment. A closer look exposes a program that mirrors communist ambitions — implemented not by workers, but by elite, well‑educated activists who claim to speak for them. Indeed, the DSA rails against the wealthy oligarchs while being funded by the ultra-rich.
Claiming to speak for workers and the oppressed of the earth, Frances Gill, DSA National Political Committee member from Los Angeles and a member of the group's Groundwork Caucus, explains their mission statement:
We have a unique responsibility to act from the heart of [the] empire, the belly of the beast. The most important thing that we can do is take that empire down from within.
Amy Wilhelm, DSA National Political Committee member, former co-chair of Seattle DSA, and a member of the Marxist Unity Group, states:
Our role ultimately is to facilitate our own empire's failure in ways that we can, ultimately to overthrow our own empire.
Beyond revolutionary rhetoric, the glaring contradictions between DSA movement leaders and the groups and individuals they claim to represent continue to multiply. For example, the DSA calls itself a working-class movement, yet its leadership is overwhelmingly affluent and credentialed.
Like the upper-class Fabians in Britain in the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries tied to Britain’s Labour party, the DSA champions democracy while advancing policies that centralize state power in its own hands. Consistent with this move, the DSA denounces economic inequality while simultaneously proposing solutions that historically have empowered ruling elites rather than workers.
Chevalier’s own rhetoric underscores DSA’s revolutionary posture. She has advocated seizing private property, abolishing the police, eliminating borders, and dismantling prisons — even refusing to support imprisoning murderers. Her language, suggesting an impoverished heart without a conscience, recalls the Apostle Paul’s warning about the coming “man of lawlessness,” who will be revealed after a great rebellion.
Chevalier’s views also recall earlier revolutionary figures. Angela Davis, for example, has long positioned herself as a radical anti-imperialist. She built her career on prison abolition, arguing that “no human being should be caged for their beliefs.” Yet when Jiří Pelikán — a lifelong Czechoslovak communist — begged Davis to condemn political imprisonment grounded in Communist Imperialism in his own country, she remained silent.
Chevalier’s willingness to cross moral boundaries also echoes Karl Marx’s and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s embrace of transgression, as part of a hostile stance toward religion. As Carl Trueman notes, Marx believed human liberation required destroying religion — especially Christianity. Whether this analogy applies fully to Chevalier, who converted to Islam in 2023 to support the Palestinians, remains an open question.
Taken together, two conclusions stand out. First, Democratic Socialists of America are committed to transforming America by any means necessary, including dismantling constitutional protections. Second, as the Danbury Institute argues, socialism’s reliance on state power directly conflicts with Christian teaching.
The Institute highlights five reasons for the widening conflict between Christian teaching and socialists' reliance on power:
Christian generosity is voluntary, not coerced by government.
Scripture affirms personal stewardship, not state control of resources.
Work is a God‑given calling, not a burden to be erased through enforced equality.
Government has a role, but not as the universal provider.
Christian compassion flows through the Church, not through centralized political authority.
The rise of democratic socialism, which is richly tied to anti-Israel, if not anti-Semitic, hatred, indicates that the barbarians are already inside the gates. This move is more than a political trend — it represents a worldview shift with profound implications for Christians and for the nation. As a consequence, eternal vigilance is required.
This is particularly true since the world’s most famous socialists, fueled by their transgressive pursuit of human perfection —from the organizers of the French Revolution to Lenin, Mao, and the leaders of the Third Reich—have shed rivers of blood in the name of the people since the Eighteenth century.