To left-wing activists, it’s a demand.
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it → ’ → activists
To too many Washington Democrats, it’s a promise.
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it → ’ → Democrats
And to voters across the country, it’s evidence — evidence that today’s Democrats are increasingly, and openly, committed to undermining the rule of law across the land.
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Democrats → ’ → land
And when the two slogans are joined by the ever-popular-on-the-left “Abolish prisons,” it forms the leftist trifecta that shows how differently than the rest of us does the hardcore Marxist think of the rule of law.
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Marxist → join → law
The hardcore Marxist left sees the rule of law differently because the hard-core Marxist left sees society differently.
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left → see → society
Because the hardcore Marxist left sees the capitalist state as fundamentally a class state, it sees prisons, courts, and police as elements of an establishment that undergirds the coercive force necessary to maintain the prevailing social, political, and economic order.
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that → see → order
In this view, the legal/judicial establishment as a whole protects the property relations and social relations upon which the capitalist society depends.
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society → protect → which
This attitude is fundamental to the DSA’s strategy to build the “classless society”: “For all of the working class to achieve collective liberation we must constrain, diminish, and abolish the carceral forces of the state,” explains a document from the DSA’s Abolition Working Group.
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document → build → Group
That’s why the DSA’s stated demands include cutting police budgets annually toward zero, reducing criminalization, freeing what it calls “incarcerated people” (read: prisoners), “demilitarizing” police, and investing instead in “community self-governance and care.”
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it → ’ → governance
So remember — any time you see the word “defund,” you should read the word “abolish,” because that is the ultimate end goal.
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that → remember → word
“Abolish ICE” goes one step further — because ICE is a specific police force, dedicated to enforcing immigration law.
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ICE → abolish → law
That brings in an additional element: international working-class solidarity, and another example of the capitalist society dividing the working classes, this time between nationalities.
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society → bring → nationalities
The Marxists who run the DSA reject the idea that citizenship status should determine which workers possess fundamental economic and political rights.
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workers → run → rights
A recent DSA party platform called for “uninhibited transnational free movement of people,” abolition of both ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), decriminalization of immigration, and citizenship for illegal aliens.
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platform → call → aliens
Its current platform is just as explicit — “Abolish ICE,” along with calls for ending ICE detention and deportation, amnesty, and ending visa caps and quotas.
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platform → abolish → caps
They’re not calling the shots for the Democrats, are they?
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they → call → Democrats
Kamala Harris — who served four years as vice president and was the Democratic Party’s last nominee for president, thereby putting her at the top of the Washington Democrat establishment — declared that “we have to redirect resources” away from the police and toward other areas of government, and then followed up by saying, “we have to reimagine public safety in America” and arguing that “for too long, people have confused achieving public safety with putting more cops on the street.
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people → serve → street
That’s straight from the mouth of the nominee Democratic Party leaders chose to represent them in the presidential campaign that took place just two years ago.
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that → ’ → place
While that’s an extraordinarily radical position to take, it’s not coming from a fringe player — it’s coming from the holder of the party’s last presidential nomination, its most prized possession.
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it → ’ → nomination
Consider this: Earlier this year, the vast majority of Democrats in both chambers of Congress were so determined to block funding for ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that when it came time to vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security — where ICE and CBP funding are located — all but seven Democrats in the House voted against it.
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Democrats → consider → it
In the Senate, every Democrat other than Pennsylvania’s Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted against it.
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Democrat → vote → it
Washington Democrats’ insistence on defunding ICE and CBP led to a 75-day shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, and, remarkably, a 116-day funding lapse for ICE and CBP.
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insistence → defunde → ICE
Voting to defund federal immigration law enforcement efforts is as extreme as it gets — it doesn’t just contribute to lawlessness at home, it goes further, to erode national sovereignty as it weakens our border security.
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it → vote → security
Of the 254 total votes cast against the funding bill in the House and the Senate, 252 of them were cast by Democrats.
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252 → cast → Democrats
Washington Democrats have now made mainstream among themselves what the rest of the country quite properly views as extraordinarily radical and extreme.
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views → make → country
Voters should remember that when making their voting decisions.
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Voters → remember → decisions
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