So-called “Democratic socialism” is no longer just an argument over taxes, healthcare, or the size of government. In the form now advanced by the Democratic Socialists of America, it reaches into nearly every institution that underpins American national power: the Constitution, private property, law enforcement, border control, energy production, technological leadership, military deterrence, and the financial strength of the United States.

That is why the DSA agenda deserves to be treated as a national security issue.

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“Democratic socialism” sounds like a more digestible version of old-fashioned socialism. But DSA’s new national program goes much further. It calls for ending capitalism, moving major industries and property out of private hands and into politically controlled ownership, writing a new Constitution, and building what it calls a “democratic socialist republic.” It seeks to abolish the Senate and Electoral College, remake the presidency and Supreme Court, abolish police and prisons, blow the borders open, eliminate immigration caps, and reduce America to a diminished power operating in the shadow of hostile regimes.

History gives us a useful name for what happens when political control expands into economic life: the apparatchik. In the Soviet system, party officials gained power because they sat inside machinery controlling jobs, housing, production, investment, and opportunity. Their influence came from position, not from building companies or competing for customers.

That is the danger in moving more industry and property into political hands. The people who control government gain more say over contracts, permits, financing, housing, energy, and........

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