Over here on the right, on the sane and rational side of the political spectrum, we often dismiss the various leftist factions as not being serious people; that's probably because, well, they aren't serious people. At least they aren't as serious as far as having any rational policy plans or ideas. But they are dead serious about making us comply with whatever horse squeeze they dream up, from pronouns to 15-minute cities/rabbit warrens.
We hear a lot about one group in particular, the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA. Yes, Democratic Socialist is a contradiction in terms; there's nothing whatsoever democratic about socialism, which always descends into totalitarian rule. But this group, of all the various fringe factions of the left, has until recently been one that favored a polite, Scandinavian-style welfare state, instead of being outright commies.
That's changing now, and it's due to one man (yes, I'm presuming his gender) who is working his way up the ranks of the DSA, and he's not a socialist; he's an outright Chairman Mao-style commie, and he's apparently willing to use violence to get what he wants.
A recent piece at City Journal by author Stu Smith has the background on this guy.
As sometimes-violent anti-ICE protests sweep the nation, the Democratic Socialists of America has created the “Red Rabbits Security Commission” to train members in “unarmed community defense.” While the group is nominally nonviolent, one of its members—Maoist internet personality Christopher Winston—has a long history of incendiary rhetoric, including a threat to “execute” writer and activist Shaun King.
Saner minds on the DSA’s National Political Committee (NPC) tried but failed to remove Winston from the commission, underscoring a growing divide within the DSA between members who support Nordic-style social democracy and an ascendant, hard-left faction that embraces violent rhetoric. As Winston’s ascension shows, the radicals are increasingly winning out.
This is a trend we are all too aware of. The American left has, for some years now, been growing more willing to use disruptions, disturbances (see Tuesday's State of the Union address), and even violence to get their way. This could very easily escalate, in the same way in which Ernest Hemingway once described bankruptcy: Slowly, then all at once.
We may well be approaching the "all at once" stage. And it's people like Wilson who are leading the left down that path.
The call for a new security commission stemmed from Resolution 26, “Fight Fascist State Repression & ICE.” Authored by the Springs of Revolution, a caucus-like group that hopes to remake DSA as “a mass revolutionary force,” the resolution instructs Red Rabbits and DSA’s National Abolition Working Group to “prepare the organization for a national uprising against federal agents and police brutality.”
In summer 2025, the DSA passed the resolution at its convention. Months later, the NPC voted to dissolve all previous national-security commissions and establish the Red Rabbits Security Commission, named in reference to animals in Watership Down by Richard Adams. An account apparently belonging to NPC member Cliff Connolly invited all DSA members to apply to the commission.
Enter the communist Winston.
A scan of videos in which Winston appears reveals his radical views. In one video, Winston claimed that “burning a Waymo is not political violence.” In another, he seemingly boasted of having “brainwashed” DSA members to embrace Maoism. In a third, he called Shaun King an “albino snake” and threatened, in the first-person plural, to “execute” him “after the revolution.”
Sometimes, his conversations became explicitly revolutionary. Winston has hosted various socialist gun organizations on his livestream, one of whose members said he was “not at all opposed to the separating of the current establishment that is the so-called American government.” In the same video, Winston said “the ultimate form of international solidarity is to make revolution in the United States.”
Winston is a member of DSA’s Liberation Caucus, a “Maoist” faction that sharply critiques the broader organization. The caucus embraces “a revolutionary theory of change” and seeks to orient DSA toward “the proletariat, the colonized, the masses of queer workers, working-class students, the undocumented, prisoners, and other militants who have no stake in this system and work for its end.” It says the United States is “not a nation” but a “prison-house of nations” and promotes the “national liberation” of America’s “colonized peoples”—effectively, a call for secessionist movements.
This is the direction the American left is going. No accommodation is possible with people like this. They are not willing to live and let live. They are not willing to compromise.
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Christopher Winston is attacking the more moderate (these things are relative) members of his own organization for being too warm and fuzzy, and not body-stacking enough to suit him. He's advocating violence: Arson (burning a Waymo is political violence) and murder (threatening to execute Shaun King "after the revolution.") He's advocating for revolution, right here in these United States, and when a communist talks about revolution, he's talking about the lots-of-people-swinging-from-lampposts kind of revolution. Of course, he's staggeringly unaware of what generally happens to useful idiots once those revolutions are over. They are known troublemakers, after all, and very often end up being among those tied to stakes and looking at rifles from the wrong side. Just read the history of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and its aftermath for examples.
I'll disagree with Mr. Smith on one point: Winston isn't calling for any secessionist movements. People like him aren't looking to break the United States up. They are looking to take it over.
This is what we need to be aware of, folks, and we should also be aware that where these nutcases would go, a large portion, maybe a majority, of today's Democratic Party would follow. Granted, Christopher Winston is more symptom than cause, but he's a symptom of the contagion infecting America's left, that being an increasing propensity for violence.
