Screencap of YouTube video.A former DSA organizer named Jake Altman was recently interviewed by the Free Press and described what life is like for members of the radical leftist movement.According to Altman, the DSA does not tolerate dissent among the ranks and works to get rid of its critics. Everyone has to be with the program to be in good standing.Frankly, this sounds an awful lot like a cult.Transcript via Real Clear Politics:Former Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organizer Jake Altman argues that over the past 10-15 years, the organization has transformed from a relatively pragmatic working-class social-democratic group into a much more radical movement driven by younger activists and open to more extreme ideas.He describes internal pressure against dissenters, increasing openness to communism, and a demographic shift toward younger and more affluent, less experienced, and more radical members during an interview with The Free Press.“When I joined in 2013, it was much more social democratic. It was very old, very white. In 2015 in Boston, it was a few older men and I who were the core of the old DSA chapter,” Altman explained. “It is night and day between DSA in even 2015 and now. It went from this, like you say, pretty moderate social-political group to a cultural juggernaut that it is today.”“By 2014, a group called the Left Caucus was formed that advanced a lot of extreme views.”“There were debates at the time about how much Leninism do we want to let into DSA. And these people, they eroded any resistance and any core of anti-communism that remained within DSA. Anti-communism became forbidden, right? This is a big evil thing, to be an anti-communist.”“And you can’t hold this view without running all the old people who experienced the 20th century out of the organization. And I think that had to have been part of the calculus, that they didn’t want any internal resistance,” he said. “And so there were instances where people were — I think efforts were made to silence people who dissented.”“I can speak from personal experience that if you dissent, there will be efforts to silence you. They use mob tactics, basically,” he said. “So if you speak out, they will coordinate and a bunch of people will jump on you and denounce you, smear you behind your back, do whatever it takes to try to discredit you if you speak out against them.”Here’s a short clip from the interview:Former DSA organizer Jake Altman says there’s a major divide between casual members and the hardcore activists running the organization, whom he calls extremists and explicit revolutionaries. pic.twitter.com/DGa9UMt7zW— Real America’s Voice (RAV) (@RealAmVoice) August 9, 2026You can see the whole thing below:The post Former DSA Member Says the Organization Does Not Tolerate Internal Dissent, is More Radical Than People Realize (VIDEO) appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.