Gustavo Gordillo is the New York City co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). He has an interesting backstory but it is all falling apart as people have dug into his background.
Gordillo was in the news recently when it was revealed that he lives in a Brooklyn home worth more than a million that his wealthy parents bought for him.
Is anything about this guy real?
The New York Post reports:
NYC DSA boss Gustavo Gordillo’s humble immigrant backstory in question — after caught faking address, job
NYC socialist honcho Gustavo Gordillo’s web of lies is unraveling fast after getting caught faking his address, his job, and apparently now — his own family’s immigration story.
Gordillo, 38, recently said his parents were poor immigrants from Peru.
“My parents came here, they had nothing,” he told the New York Times in a profile piece earlier this month, before lying in a follow-up article about living in a Crown Heights rental.
“Their first jobs were in fast food and cleaning houses. They built success in this country. And they’re absolutely the exception.”
But an unearthed 2021 obituary about his paternal grandfather, Manuel Gordillo — the first of the family to move to the US –paints a considerably different picture of the family’s American roots.
“Manuel earned a medical degree from San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, and emigrated to the US in 1958 as a medical resident,” it reads.
“He obtained his US citizenship in 1964. He built a long and respected career as a psychiatrist in the Cleveland area and reluctantly retired at 87 years old!”…
Public records show only one Gustavo Gordillo married to a woman named Elizabeth in the US. The DSA co-chair’s parents live in Miami, where his father, an engineer, founded a $90 million telecommunications firm.
He’s a phony.
So let’s recap the story of DSA co-chair Gustavo:
– Lied about being a union electrician
– Father is multimillionaire CEO who fled communism
– Owns multiple mansions, are landlords
– Parents bought him a million-dollar townhouse
– Converted it from two-family to luxury single… https://t.co/RcuO78siKo— Hon. Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) August 22, 2026
Embattled NYC DSA leader Gustavo Gordillo blasted by comrades: ‘not working class’ https://t.co/sBCTltqxrW pic.twitter.com/v9O79xoMSC
— New York Post (@nypost) August 29, 2026
It looks like he is just another rich kid cosplaying as a communist revolutionary.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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