Former United States Labor Secretary Tom Perez is now chairman of the Democratic Party. On Saturday, the Democratic National Committee elected a new chairman, with Perez narrowly edging out Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota in a 235-to-200 vote among party officials.

The contest between Perez and Ellison was widely reported as a contest between the two wings of the Democratic Party. Establishment figures like former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Joe Biden and former White House adviser Valerie Jarrett endorsed Perez for the chairman position. Meanwhile, progressive populists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. John Lewis of Georgia endorsed Ellison.

The election of Perez represents a major victory for Democrats loyal to Mr. Obama. Within moments of his election, however, Perez made the strategically savvy move of making Ellison his deputy chairman. By reaching out to the Sanders socialist wing of the party, Perez hopes to unite establishment and populist Democrats against President Donald Trump, whom he calls the “worst president in the history of the United States.”

As chairman and deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Perez and Ellison are responsible for rebuilding the Democratic Party. Since Obama’s inauguration in 2009, the Democrats have lost 62 seats in the House of Representatives, 9 seats in the Senate, and over 900 seats in state legislatures. Democrats also lost the presidency and 12 state governorships during the 2016 election, meaning the party now controls fewer elected seats than at any point in the last 90 years.

The first reason that the Democrats lost so many seats is that many working-class voters who supported Mr. Obama jumped ship and cast a ballot for the Republican Party in 2016. The second reason is that Millennials and racial minorities did not turn out in nearly the same numbers as they did in the 2008 election that brought Obama to power.

Democratic Party officials have two options for regaining power: move their party back toward the political center in a bid to win back those voters who switched from Obama to Trump, or move the party even further left in a bid to win over those who supported Sanders. Perez’s election is a strong indication that the Democratic National Committee has opted for the second strategy.

Even though Perez was painted as the moderate candidate in the recent race for Democratic Party leadership, his work in the Justice and Labor Departments of the Obama administration earned him a reputation as a radical ideologue.

Iain Murray, vice president of strategy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit libertarian think tank, once referred to Perez as “possibly the most dangerous person in the [Obama] administration.”

“His rewriting of U.S. labor law is probably the most fundamental attack on the free-enterprise system going on at present,” Murray told the National Review last year. “If he has his way, we won’t just revert to the 1930s. We’ll do things that even Franklin Roosevelt couldn’t do, like eliminate vast numbers of independent-contractor jobs and unionize those that remain.”

Yet despite Perez’s radical goals, reporters are characterizing him as moderate—because they are comparing him to Keith Ellison. In addition to Ellison’s connection to Bernie Sanders’s democratic socialist movement, Ellison also has ties to more than one Communist organization.

In 2014, he wrote an editorial for the Communist Party usa, arguing that grassroots socialist organizations are needed to bring about necessary reform in the United States.

In 1989, Ellison granted an interview to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a radical Communist organization that has suggested splitting the U.S. into an African-American republic in the Southeast, a Hispanic nation in the Southwest and a Hawaiian kingdom in the Pacific Ocean. During this interview on the topic of police brutality, Ellison stressed that the “responsible activist has to show young folks out there that white supremacy and capitalism are what’s putting them in the position they’re in.”

Eight years ago, U.S. politicians had to at least attempt to cover up their socialist pasts if they wanted to win elections. Now radical progressives like Bernie Sanders and Keith Ellison openly agitate for undermining the free market and replacing it with socialism.

Even “moderate” Tom Perez is now saying he wants to make Ellison the new “face of the Democratic Party.”

So what happens now that the Democratic Party has appointed two hard-left ideologues to lead it into the future?

In an interview held the day after his election, Perez said he plans to let Ellison run the party’s grassroots organizing efforts. To understand how Ellison is likely to go about fulfilling this task, consider an interview he gave in January encouraging opponents to President Trump’s executive orders on immigration to take to the streets in protest. “It’s time for people to get active, to get involved, to vote and to organize,” he said. “Trump must be stopped, and people power is what we have at our disposal to make him stop. We need mass rallies. We need them all over the country. We need them in Texas. We need them in D.C. We need them in Minnesota.”

Now that the Democrats control fewer legislative seats than at any time in almost a century, their main source of power is their ability to shut down parts of the country through demonstrations, protests and riots. Both Ellison and Obama have past ties to Marxist organizations and experience in community organizing. While Ellison will be managing the Democratic National Committees grassroots organizing efforts, Obama is directing 30,000 activists of his own via the Organizing for Action project. While the populist-socialist wing of the Democratic Party is still held back to some degree by the party’s establishment wing, the men who will decide how to make those wings flap together are not establishment figures: They are chairman Perez and deputy chairman Ellison.

Decades ago, Plain Truth editor Herbert W. Armstrong warned that Communist philosophy would strip America of its blessings—the greatest national blessings ever conferred on any people—not because socialists outmaneuvered conservatives, but because the American people as a whole turned away from God’s law. In particular, he warned that Communist thought would pervert America’s morals, sabotage its educational system, wreck its social structure, destroy its spiritual life, and weaken its economic power.

“Why are our people unable to recognize the Communist line—the Communist plan and conspiracy—in college and university riots, in propaganda accusing ‘police brutality,’ in ‘black power,’ ‘black panther’ and other slogans, even in ‘civil disobedience’ and ‘nonviolent’ movements of protest which lead to violence?” he asked in the March 1969 Plain Truth. “The guiding hand in student revolt is the Communist Party. Many students, their emotions stirred and enraged to violence, do not themselves realize this. Yet actually, these young leaders of the ‘New Left’ movement are going beyond the Communist Party. Their plan is to stir up college-age students to revolt first, and the teenage high school adolescents. If they can corrupt and/or win over tomorrow’s students, they will gain control.”

Mr. Armstrong based his forecast not only on current events but on Bible prophecy. Today, the 1960s New Left student radicals are the leaders of the modern Democratic Party—and we’re not only talking about Perez and Ellison. These radical leaders are now shifting their party even further left to gain the support of the Millennials generation—a demographic that leans overwhelmingly Democrat and even socialist. This type of strategy can only lead to civil unrest and violent revolution.

To understand the full biblical significance behind the Democratic Party’s dangerous turn left, please read Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s free reprint article “Communism in America Today.”