Marketing gurus, public relations experts, crisis counselors, and especially political consultants understand how vital it is to frame the message.

In today’s whirlwind society, it is increasingly difficult to frame messages amid the omnipresent white noise of modern life. The rise of social media and distrust in the mainstream media has also degraded the ability.

However, message framing is still a powerful tool that has been used nearly forever, particularly when it comes to rallying against an enemy.

Thomas Paine framed the message that the British were an antagonist to liberty before the Revolution. President Abraham Lincoln framed the message that slavery was abhorrent before the Civil War began.

In the late 1930s, FDR, the media, and most major institutions framed the message that the Axis Powers were the bad guys long before Pearl Harbor.

After World War II, the media and most major institutions framed the message that communism was a manmade menace as the Cold War began.

Today, the mainstream media and institutions like academia lack the moral clarity to simply state that the political rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an existential threat to the United States of America.

I’ll go one step further. A few weeks after the United States celebrated its monumental 250th anniversary, there is a strong effort to whitewash the DSA, mischaracterize their aims, and obscure........

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