David S. Duhalde

No amount of spin can erase @FrancescaHongWI’s own words. She didn’t just advocate for defunding the police. She called to abolish them. In January, the Wisconsin Electoral Socialists endorsed her for her “commitment to police and prison abolition.”

The DSA is dining on the moment to get themselves attention. But the spotlight on some of their crazy-ass ideas is unhelpful--not just for Dems but for progressive goals. You can be for honoring the humanity and value of immigrants, and for blowing up the gangster operation that ICE has become, and still recognize the importance of our borders and the need for appropriate immigration enforcement. You can be for profound police reforms, alternative policing strategies and an end to mass incarceration, and still recognize that police and policing are necessary and important for the safety of our communities, and that some people commit crimes that warrant prison. You can be for universal healthcare, climate action, fair wages, tougher regulations and anti-trust enforcement to rein in corporate abuse, and a host of other progressive goals and not be for the government seizing all or part of businesses--though on this, the DSA is making common cause with @realDonaldTrump, who thinks it's fine for the government to grab pieces of major corporations. You can be opposed to senseless wars and bloated Pentagon budgets and still recognize the need for a well-trained military because there are real threats in the world against which we have to defend. In their most extreme views, the DSA doesn't represent the majority of Democrats or the country. But because candidates they've backed have won primaries in isolated places--often by not emphasizing some of their more extrene positions--they are having a moment. And they have become the boogeymen and women an embattled Republican Party, saddled with an unpopular @POTUS, have seized on to try and deflect attention and hold the Congress.

@CoriBush stood up against the genocide from the start -- introducing the congressional ceasefire resolution in 2023. That's why AIPAC has spent millions to stop her. We need more elected officials with real courage. Proud to endorse Cori for Congress.