‘Democratic Party’ and ‘DSA’ Are Now Officially Synonymous

Adark art of the scriveners’ circle is “word variety”: livening up prose by avoiding repeated use of the same word or terminology.

Accordingly, this digital ink-stained wretch has always been grateful for the acronymic alternative for “Republican Party” – “GOP.” And equally frustrated that a counterpart did not exist for its opposite number.

Until now.

The Democrats’ leftward drift – actually, now a full-out sprint – has provided a neat and increasingly useful abbreviation.

DSA.

But wait, you protest. Isn’t that the name of a separate, radical party that has infiltrated the ranks of Democratic candidates for various offices ranging from city councils to the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body?