Opinion: Democrats – A time for choosing Communism or the Constitution?

Nancy Churchill argues moderate Democrats now face a choice between the Constitution and a DSA platform that includes abolishing the Senate, presidency, and Supreme Court.

🎧 Communism or the Constitution? Nancy Churchill’s Warning

Nancy Churchill says moderate Democrats and independents who still value the country they grew up in now face a clear choice

Nancy Churchill
Dangerous Rhetoric

Something has shifted inside the Democratic Party, and even its own longtime voices can no longer pretend otherwise. A rising faction no longer whispers about transforming America. It states the goal in plain language and runs candidates who repeat it. Moderate Democrats and independents who still value the country they grew up in now face a clear choice. It is no longer about tax rates or healthcare tweaks. It is about whether the Constitution remains the supreme law of the land or becomes an obstacle to be removed.

The platform they no longer hide

Nancy Churchill

Start with the words of the Democratic Socialists of America themselves. DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer has confirmed the platform includes abolishing the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court. It calls for abolishing ICE, borders, and prisons. It demands defunding the Pentagon and mass amnesty for illegal immigrants.

Bill Maher, no conservative, recently read these positions aloud to his audience. He quoted the DSA platform’s line that “you work as much as you are able and no more than needed,” noting that if it got any closer to Karl Marx’s formula, they could be sued for plagiarism. Maher listed the rest: New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani once tweeted Marx’s exact words. His top aide Cea Weaver declared the government’s “sacred right to seize property” and aimed to “impoverish the white middle class.”

A soon-to-be Democratic congresswoman supports seizing all properties from landlords and says “seize the means of production.” The Marxist Unity Group inside the DSA commits to “a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.” Cea Weaver even tweeted “Elect more communists.”

These are not fringe comments. They are the published platform and public statements of rising stars. When a liberal audience gasps at hearing them, the problem is not right-wing exaggeration. The problem is the content itself.

Lifelong Democrats walk away

Julian Epstein spent years as chief counsel for House Judiciary Democrats. He was a committed Clinton Democrat who regularly defended the party on television. He recently announced he is switching parties and supporting Republican Mike Rogers in the Michigan Senate race.

Epstein’s reason was blunt. The party has gone far to the left of the median voter and lost its moral center. “The lunatics are in charge of the asylum,” he said. “There is no room in the tent for people who want to destroy the Constitution, align with radical Islam or antisemitism, or show no interest in building for the next generation while only redistributing what others created and tearing down the free market.” That free market, Epstein noted, has been the most effective anti-poverty machine human beings have ever invented.

When a man who devoted his career to the Democratic Party reaches that conclusion, the rest of us should pay attention. Epstein is not describing a policy disagreement. He is describing a party that has made room for people who reject the America system and the Constitution itself.

Not a workers’ revolt

Supporters of the DSA often claim they speak for the working class. Mike Rowe dismantled that story with one statistic. Fifty-nine percent of Democrats who support socialism have college degrees. Only 40 percent do not. This is not a spontaneous uprising of factory hands and farm workers. It is heavily credentialed young people who borrowed heavily, chased a dream job, and ended up deep in debt and angry. Rowe notes that the movement sold as a workers’ revolt is something else entirely.

The Cold War comes home

Stephen Miller put the stakes in historical terms. America spent decades fighting a Cold War with the Soviet Union. Now, that Cold War has come home to America. If communists gain lasting control of House seats, Senate seats, and governors’ mansions, the American dream that heroes bled and died for over 250 years will be gone. And they will never let it return.

A movement that openly seeks to abolish the Senate, the presidency, the Supreme Court, private property, and secure borders is not offering reforms. It is offering a different system of government. Once that system takes hold, history shows it does not voluntarily surrender power.

A time for choosing

Moderate Democrats and independents who still believe in limited government, free speech, private property, and equal justice under law do not have to become Republicans overnight. They do not have to agree with every conservative position. But they do have to decide whether the Constitution is still worth defending.

The DSA and its allies are not hiding. They publish their platform, tweet their goals, and run candidates who say the quiet part out loud. Lifelong Democrats like Julian Epstein are already walking away. Liberal commentators like Bill Maher are sounding the alarm. The middle ground is shrinking.

You can stay silent and vote the way you always have.

Or you can face the obvious: the Democratic Socialists now shaping the party want to replace the Constitution with communism. The free market that lifted millions out of poverty is not the enemy. Secure borders are not oppression. An independent judiciary and a bicameral Congress are not old-fashioned relics to be discarded.

We already see early results where this ideology has gained ground. In Seattle and New York, progressive governance influenced by the same ideas has produced homelessness, fleeing businesses, and a public safety crisis ordinary residents feel every day. That is a preview of what happens when people who reject the Constitution gain real power.

Communism or the Constitution

This is a time for choosing. Communism or the Constitution. The American system has flaws, but it remains the most successful engine of human liberty and prosperity the world has known. The only question is whether enough people will say so while it still matters.

As Dwight D. Eisenhower warned in 1954 “Above all, we must not permit anyone to divert our attention from the main battle and to inspire quarrels that eventually find good citizens bitterly opposed to other good citizens, when basically all would like to be joined in effective opposition to communism.”

The dividing line is clear. Stand on the side that protects what generations built. Choose the Constitution while it is still yours to defend.

Nancy Churchill is a writer, educator, and conservative activist in rural eastern Washington state. She chairs the Ferry County Republican Party and advocates for effective citizen influence through Influencing Olympia Effectively. She may be reached at DangerousRhetoric@pm.me. The opinions expressed in Dangerous Rhetoric are her own. Dangerous Rhetoric is available on Substack and X.