Growing rapidly since 2016, the group jumped from about 6,500 members in 2014 (with a median age of sixty-eight) to over one hundred thousand members (with a median age of about thirty-three) in 2026.

Could this be the 3rd party America so desperately needs? They still have this shitty voting system that always favors the 2 biggest, but still, could this be the first step towards a better democracy?

Oh but the article rebukes me:

Answering these questions requires resisting two temptations that have shaped much of the commentary on DSA. The first is triumphalism, the assumption that the organization’s growth is the leading edge of an irreversible socialist revival and that its trajectory can only continue upward. The second is the mirror image of this, a declinism that reads each of the group’s many internal crises as the beginning of the end. Both err in the same way: they mistake the story of a single organization for that of a whole political conjuncture. DSA’s rise cannot be understood apart from the institutional structure of American electoral politics, the specific sequence of events that revived the American left after 2008, and the strategic choices the organization has made in response to both.