He is a DSA shill but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The org generally doesn’t try to herd members back into the Democratic Party. It even has an ML cochair and ML and Maoist caucus. The problem is they don’t have any way to discipline their members who run for elected office. That’s how you get opportunists like AOC and Mamdani joining just to try and siphon off some free volunteer labor for their campaigns. Hasan only superficially engages with DSA which is why he trusts these candidates but then gets surprised when they act like democrats.