Communism, the DSA, and the Guillotine

I need to keep repeating that communism is a bait-and-switch scheme by a class of wealthy meddlers who wish to control the lives of others with life-and-death power over them. In a word, socialism is slavery. They've proven this in modern history by trying to control what people may own, what they may say, what they may think and with whom they may associate, always through fear of punishment, especially social punishment.

I recently discussed my latest Federalist piece on this topic with Mark Tapson of the Horowitz Freedom Center. You can listen to our conversation here:  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHgOrt-FaA

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leaders have stoked so much violence in their mobs, that they and their Antifa allies have even taken mock guillotines to their riots! Take a look at this clip of Antifa/DSA rioters setting up a guillotine in Portland:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RsXwxAHsMHE

This took place in September 2025. They burned the American flag (not the guillotine as the above caption suggests.)

This is the behavior of the violent Jacobins of the French Revolution who cheered on the guillotining of anyone they considered a class enemy.  Below is a rendering of Queen Marie Antoinette's execution at the guillotine in 1793.

Ironically, the Jacobins were led by the aristocrat Robespierre who ended up guillotined himself. The founder of the magazine Jacobin is a DSA leader, by the way.  And the rabid podcaster Hasan Piker is another wealthy DSA cheerleader.

So why does anyone fall for their stuff?  It's so depraved and violent. I keep going back to my thesis of the weaponization of loneliness because nothing else makes any sense.  It’s connected to the cult mindset. When trapped in that mindset -- whether as a member of a cult, gang, or mob -- the need to belong to the group and the fear of being ostracized by the group is so overpowering that people will do or say anything to avoid it.  And just imagine what would happen to any Antifa member who decides to leave the cult. It ain't pretty.

Also, polling only tells you what peoples SAY they believe, not what they really believe.  They'll support false narratives, especially if they feel it’s unsafe to stray from the narrative only to face social rejection.