Are the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) surging to victory in New York City because foreigners and immigrants are smuggling this ideology into the U.S.? That seems to be the takeaway for many conservatives bemoaning that "Third World-ism"—i.e., the nominally communist brand of authoritarianism that is prevalent in some African and Latin American countries—is winning at the ballot box. Their solution, unsurprisingly, is to curb all categories of immigration, legal and illegal.
The victories of Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in Tuesday's Democratic House primaries are indeed lamentable. Avila Chevalier is a modern campus radical who has aligned herself with far-left activist groups that wish to "eradicate Western civilization." She wants to abolish borders, police, private property, etc. Valdez is no less extreme.
