When the Vacuum Opens: DSA and the Bolshevik Playbook

Let’s look at the Democratic Party ahead of the 2026 midterms; one must conclude that it is a coalition on its last legs.

When the Bolsheviks were a fringe faction in February 1917, Vladimir Lenin was in exile. Practically no one in Russia believed they could form a government. When the Czar fell, the army and the provisional government revealed their inability to hold the space they previously occupied. At that time a small, disciplined minority did not require overwhelmi…