DSA powerbrokers are ecstatic — they believe they've captured the Democratic Party.
If they're right, they'll be the only ones laughing.
Handing the party to the hard left will destroy the moderate center that made Democrats formidable for generations.
I grew up a Democrat in San Francisco — we barely knew there were two parties. In 1972, at 18, I cast my first presidential vote for George McGovern. Nixon's 520-17 electoral landslide — 61% of the popular vote, 49 states — stunned me. I thought something was wrong with the country.
There wasn't. The party I was raised with had just moved too far left for America.
Half a century later, after San Francisco, New York, and Miami, I'm an independent and I turn my investigative journalism lens on the excesses in each major party. But if the DSA succeeds with its candidate slates and radical platform, Democrats are about to relive that 1972 lesson.