House Republican aims to put Democrats on the record over DSA with resolution condemning socialism

"I keep hearing people like Hakeem Jeffries and others in the Congress saying that they oppose the DSA. Let's see if they're willing to vote for a resolution that would oppose them," Crank told Fox News Digital in an interview Friday.

Crank's House resolution cites New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's victory as one of the clearest signposts of the DSA's growing political momentum.

Crank described the DSA movement as "anti-American" and "anti-Constitution," arguing its members are often hostile to free speech, one of the core rights protected by the U.S. Constitution.

He also accused DSA members of being antisemitic in their advocacy against Israel, particularly after the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel.

"If that's a marriage, their child is violence, right? It's violence and intimidation. It's showing up at town hall meetings and trying to shout elected officials down, which, by the way, is completely anti-democratic."

One recent example of DSA members disrupting an elected official came in February, when the San Francisco DSA led a protest at a news conference held by Mayor Daniel Lurie, who is Jewish.

Lurie was announcing a tax cut proposal when demonstrators repeatedly chanted "Tax the rich." During the disruption, a woman also shouted, "Tax the Jews," though DSA and other protesters said she was not affiliated with the group.

Crank also took aim at several proposals contained in the DSA's national program, arguing that they undermine "free and fair elections."

According to the DSA's program, all permanent U.S. residents should have the right to vote, as should incarcerated people and those with criminal convictions.

Crank also criticized the DSA's explicit opposition to capitalism, arguing that socialism has repeatedly failed both in the United States and abroad.

"I find it ironic that many of the people who are pushing socialism or who are involved in the DSA movement, they're people who came here from a different country, and now they come here and want to impose ... the socialism that they left, that didn't work," Crank said.

"You're seeing socialism at its worst in places like New York with Mamdani, who's saying, 'Well, I am just going to tax anybody who has a big house here,'" Crank said. "Well, people can choose to not have a house in New York. So they leave. It doesn't work.

"He's the first one to sort of get elected, and now he's trying to spread it and get other DSA members around the country elected."

"[Kiros] said America deserved 9/11. So, tell me why that's different? When you have a bunch of terrorists on Sept. 11 killing Americans because of ideology, how is that different than what Mao did? It isn't. This is the insidiousness of this movement," Crank said.

Crank's resolution similarly draws a line between modern democratic socialists and past communist regimes under leaders such as Mao Zedong and Joseph Stalin, asserting that socialism has led to famine, mass killings and more than 100 million deaths worldwide.

"Inevitable in the sense that we destabilized a lot of the Middle East, which led people to believe that another act of violence was the only response. And, again, just like I said before, our responsibility is to get rid of those conditions that lead to violence in the first place," Kiros said.

Crank's resolution will be considered by the House Rules Committee on Monday, and there will be a vote likely sometime next week, the congressman told Fox News Digital.