Democrats no longer have the No. 1 weapon to keep their socialist wing in line

American politics is an ever-changing game of power and big money. For the modern Democrat Party, that means being challenged and sometimes eclipsed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) – and there is little to nothing the Democrat Party can do about its rise.

The United States has had many political parties in its history. They include everything from the Federalists (1789) and the Whig Party (1830) to the Libertarian Party (1971) and the Green Party (2001).

The current Democrat Party (1828) is the longest reigning major political party in American History.

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The role of the many lesser-known parties in American history has been to chasten the then-dominant parties and/or to champion particular issues – such as the Greenback Party (1874), which fought for paper money in the late 1800s. While that Greenback Party is no more, paper money has replaced gold as the dominant American currency.

Of course, the shortcomings of the Whig party resulted in the rise of the Republican Party.

Today, the dominance of the Democrat Party is being challenged by the Democrat Socialists of America – a modern version of the Socialist Party that began in 1901, or, perhaps, the American Communist Party that started in 1919.

DSA candidates are loudly fielding candidates across the country with no greater success than New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani's victory.

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The establishment Democrats are raising their voices in alarm, garnering such headlines as these:

Recently, Van Jones, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, warned that the DSA was "hijacking" the party.

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Other Democrats welcome the DSA stating that the Democrat Party is a "big tent" party. After all, as I wrote recently, the DSA and the Democrat are solely aligned on the major issues such as the Green New Deal, taxation, government healthcare, defunding the police and more.

The plain truth, however, is that the Democrat Party has no control over the DSA and, more importantly, cannot stop it from claiming its members are "Democrats" and redefining the Democrat Party.

That is so because 20 years ago, the mothers milk of politics – money – escaped the clutches of the tight-fisted control of the major parties.

In the olden days, before 2010, the political parties dominated the selection of candidates through fundraising, endorsements, and expenditures on behalf of candidates. In the process, their preferred, if not chosen, candidates almost always won Democrat primaries.

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