Socialists are vowing to hurt moderate Democrats who aren’t pushing to abolish ICE. “You hear so many people, especially ‘normie’ people be like, ‘Oh, we just have to make it to the midterms and then things are going to get better. No, no, no, no, no!’” NYC DSA leader Hanna Johnson told more than 50 members at a Thursday night meeting of the party’s Immigration Justice Working Group. “You don’t just get to earn our votes,” declared Johnson, the group co-chair and deputy chief of staff to Brooklyn Assemblywoman Emily Gallagher.
“The Democratic Party, the mainstream normie establishment Dems, we’re not just going to give you back power to do the same absolute nothing that you’ve been doing. If you want us to vote for you, not being Trump is not enough.” The group says the midterms will be a referendum on immigration. It has given its effort to undermine federal authority an Orwellian name — “decriminalizing immigration.”
