{"id":5461,"date":"2026-07-27T06:08:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5461"},"modified":"2026-07-27T06:08:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T06:08:34","slug":"mamdani-dsa-aim-to-transform-america-by-pushing-barbarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metrotransitreview.com\/?p=5461","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani, DSA aim to ‘transform’ America \u2014 by pushing barbarism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Democratic Socialists of America are having a moment. In fact, they\u2019re having a season.<\/p>\n

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DSA candidates are winning nationwide in Democratic Party primaries, knocking off incumbents while running on some of the most deranged platforms in recent political memory.<\/p>\n

Zohran Mamdani, the charismatic young socialist in Gracie Mansion, is the new leader of the DSA pack.<\/p>\n

It couldn\u2019t be clearer what the DSA wants: to finish the job, launched by Barack Obama on the precipice of presidential victory in 2008, of \u201cfundamentally transforming\u201d the United States. <\/p>\n

The DSA\u2019s new policy platform, released this month, says the quiet part out loud: \u201cWe are workers fighting to transform society,\u201d to \u201cdraft a new constitution, and create a democratic socialist republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

It would be one thing if these were the words of a starry-eyed freshman pothead, first exposed to Marx and pontificating to dormmates while John Lennon\u2019s dreadful song \u201cImagine\u201d plays in the background.<\/p>\n

But people like Hizzoner and the new uptown socialist \u201cit girl,\u201d Darializa Avila Chevalier, are adults.<\/p>\n

They are serious. And that makes them not just naive but dangerous.<\/p>\n

Zo has had a complicated relationship with the issue of public safety.<\/p>\n

The official DSA platform stops short of calling for full \u201cabolition\u201d of prisons or policing, instead calling to \u201cdemilitarize police departments\u201d and \u201cend mass incarceration.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Avila Chevalier promoted full-on police and prison abolition from a since-deleted Twitter\/X account, and Mamdani condemned the \u201ccarceral state\u201d when he ran for the \u00a0Assembly in 2020.<\/p>\n

After Avila Chevalier\u2019s primary victory, Mamdani was pressed during an appearance on ABC News on whether he supports the existence of prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are prisons,\u201d he simply responded.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not exactly reassuring.<\/p>\n

Just this week, Zo appeared on purported comic Jon Stewart\u2019s podcast and doubled down on his prevarication. Stewart asked Hizzoner if he is \u201ccomfortable\u201d with calls to abolish prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m comfortable with disagreement,\u201d he replied. <\/p>\n

Noted. But the more important question is: Should Americans be comfortable with public officials entertaining the abolition of the twin pillars of public safety, police and prisons? The answer is obvious: No. <\/p>\n

Democratic socialists think they\u2019re helping the \u201clittle guy\u201d with their anti-cop, anti-prison lunacy. They\u2019re not.<\/p>\n

According to recent federal data, 62% of state prisoners were serving time for a violent offense, such as homicide, rape or robbery.<\/p>\n

These people are threats to society and need to be incarcerated.<\/p>\n

As esteemed criminologist Barry Latzer notes, the average American inmate was arrested a whopping 11 times before getting locked up, and an astonishing 83% of released prisoners are ultimately rearrested \u2014 about half in the first year after release.<\/p>\n

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Socialists might think they\u2019re helping black Americans amid our post-1619 Project racial reckoning, but they fail here too: Nearly 90% of black homicide victims are killed by black perpetrators.<\/p>\n

The biggest danger to law-abiding blacks in America today is the threat posed by violent blacks out on the streets, and not behind bars.<\/p>\n

There is only one coherent explanation for the DSA\u2019s anti-cop, anti-prison obsession: naked, raw ideology.<\/p>\n

And there is a name for that ideology: Third World-ism. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a dystopian zeal for barbarism over civilization. And these days, it\u2019s the name of the game for the activist left. We see it everywhere.<\/p>\n

Third World-ism explains the activist left\u2019s support for the butchers of Hamas over the free people of Israel.<\/p>\n

Third World-ism explains the activist left\u2019s support for punitive environmental regulations that engender economic degrowth.<\/p>\n

Third World-ism explains why the activist left speculates that maybe America actually deserved 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Third World-ism explains why the activist left wants the anarchy of open borders, not the ordered liberty of the nation-state.<\/p>\n

Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with illegal aliens and not victims of illegal-alien crime.<\/p>\n

And Third World-ism explains why the activist left sides with criminals, in general, and not with crime victims.<\/p>\n

The problem with ideology, as the philosophers recognized millennia ago, is that it is stubborn.<\/p>\n

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It is usually impervious to logic, reason or empiricism.<\/p>\n

The remedy for bad ideology, therefore, cannot simply be facts and statistics. We also need good ideology: a moral argument that public safety is a public good, and government exists to secure the public good.<\/p>\n

Whether there is anyone willing to make that argument in earnest remains to be seen.<\/p>\n

Josh Hammer is Newsweek senior editor-at-large and host of \u201cThe Josh Hammer Show.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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