So I get the reflex on the right this month to reach for “Red Scare” and mean it literally. Before we go there, it’s worth remembering what the original Red Scare got right and what it got badly wrong. That distinction decides whether conservatives win this fight or hand the other side another martyr story. Madison designed the Senate because unchecked democracy tends to eat itself, and the DSA platform treats that design as an obstacle rather than a feature. Conservatives who draw that distinction, offering functioning markets and the rule of law as the cure, will win converts.