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DSA Co-Chair Megan Romer did Americans a favor by saying the quiet part out loud.“We will win by making conditions so intolerable to the ruling class that they would rather give in to our demands than live with the disturbance we cause,” Romer said. “Until we are able to fully seize power ourselves.”Read those words again.This is not a call to persuade voters, win honest debates, or pass legislation through the normal democratic process. It is a declaration that socialists intend to deliberately make life intolerable until people surrender to their demands.That is what socialists do.They create disruption, resentment, fear, and economic pain, then present themselves as the solution to the misery they helped produce. The objective is not peaceful coexistence. The objective is power.Americans should take this threat seriously.When political activists block roads, occupy buildings, intimidate workers, interfere with law enforcement, destroy property, or attempt to shut down ordinary life, government officials cannot continue treating it as harmless protest. Peaceful protest is a constitutional right. Coercion, vandalism, threats, and organized lawlessness are not.Anyone who crosses that line should face arrest, prosecution, jail, civil liability, and every other lawful consequence available.There can be no special exemption because the people causing the disruption claim to be pursuing “social justice.” A crime committed for socialism is still a crime.The most revealing portion of Romer’s statement is the desire to “fully seize power.” That phrase should destroy the comforting fiction that the DSA is merely seeking a slightly larger welfare state.America was founded on limited government, private property, individual liberty, religious freedom, and the right of citizens to live without being ruled by an all-powerful political class.Socialism attacks every one of those principles.You cannot claim to love America while working to eliminate the freedoms that make America worth loving. You cannot praise democracy while planning to make life intolerable until your opponents submit.Believe them when they tell us what they intend to do.What consequences should people face when political disruption crosses the line into intimidation, destruction, or organized lawlessness?Source: Commentary magazine, “The Misery Strategy”