Tucker Carlson and the Democratic Socialists of America released their visions for the country weeks apart. You will be shocked by how much they agree.  

I wanted to make sure you had the chance to participate in the next installment of our Political Working Group series taking place on August 13 at 3 PM ET. We will take a deeper dive into the “red-green” alliance, which features radical leftists and Marxists finding common cause with radical Islamism. It is one of a growing number of instances where traditional political labels are breaking down and the far-left and far-right are finding common cause.

To get a sense of how pervasive that has become, just look at two documents that came out recently that I would recommend reading back-to-back.

In July, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) published a new party program laying out what their vision for our country would look like. On August 5, Tucker Carlson spent an hour laying out ten things he says America should be, a few weeks after quitting the Republican Party. Neither one mentions the other, but they are strangely similar, and offer ideas that tend to fall into two categories.

• Nice sounding ideas about how America should be with absolutely no vision for how we would get there.
• Dangerous and nightmarish ideas that would drag most Americans to a place we do not want to go.

Both say the two major parties operate as a single party on the questions that matter most. Both describe a protected class that writes its own rules. Carlson calls it the Epstein class. The DSA program calls it a criminal class of billionaires and war profiteers. And, more concretely:

• Both want the two-party system replaced.
• Both would end American military aid to Israel.
• Both want an end to overseas military commitments.

Carlson and the DSA – like all demagogues – are speaking to many real problems that voters are concerned and angry about. They diverge quickly after that. Carlson wants immigration stopped until we understand what artificial intelligence does to the job market, whereas the DSA wants ICE and America’s border abolished. Carlson wants cities with no crime, while the DSA wants police departments defunded on the way to abolishing them.

Both problems also lack any roadmap for how their vision becomes a reality.

I went looking for costs or a timeline in both plans. There was nothing. Neither one is hiding it, either. Carlson says fixing the country through “technocratic solutions is by definition doomed to fail.” The DSA program says “complete victory will require building a new society from the ground up.” Both are telling you that the democratic and economic system America has spent 250 years building should be mostly junked.

We are a long way from Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” or Bill Clinton saying “There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.”

This country and its problems are so very different from the 1980s and 1990s. And yet it is not too late for Americans to reject the grievance-driven politics of Tucker and the DSA, who offer many ideas that will, without question, make America immeasurably worse. It is not too late to find, elevate, and support the optimistic, future-oriented leaders who have always driven this country forward.

In the meantime, we should all understand that the kind of politics represented by Carlson and the DSA is not just some passing fad. Americans need to pay attention to what these extreme forces are trying to do, so we can be prepared to offer something better.

To that end, I hope you will join us for No Labels’ next Political Working Group call on August 13, where we will take a deeper dive into the “red-green” alliance, which features radical leftists and Marxists finding common cause with radical Islamism.