The Democratic Socialists of America want to scrap the Senate, the presidency, and the Supreme Court — the very constitutional architecture that keeps this country from collapsing into mob rule — and any candidate who wants their endorsement will be expected to campaign on it.
That's not a fringe wish list anymore. DSA's revised platform, titled "Workers Deserve More," formally requires endorsed candidates to "accept and promote DSA's program, and align their own campaign platforms with its contents to the best of their ability," according to the resolution published Friday in Democratic Left, the organization's official magazine. The platform calls for "a unicameral, proportional legislature (abolishing the Senate) and a parliamentary system (abolishing the presidency)," along with eliminating ICE, pardoning all immigrants including those who've committed crimes, defunding the Department of War, extending full voting rights to noncitizens, and ending all deportations.
House Democrats, confronted with the agenda, scattered. Rep. Ro Khanna of California told Fox News Digital, "I don't support that. I haven't read the proposal." Rep. Ilhan Omar, one of the chamber's most progressive members, dodged entirely. Rep. Pete Aguilar, also of California, said he's "not a member of the DSA" and couldn't comment on their documents — then added he's "not at all" worried about socialist candidates complicating the Democratic Party's agenda.
He should be. DSA-backed candidates have been beating moderate Democrats in primaries across the country this cycle, and the new endorsement rules mean those candidates won't just be sympathetic fellow travelers — they'll be bound to a platform that explicitly demands the destruction of constitutional government as it has existed for over two centuries.
The ignorance underpinning this push was on full display when Gustavo Gordillo, DSA's New York City co-chair, appeared on Fox News to defend abolishing the Senate. "The United States Senate is an undemocratic institution," Gordillo said. "It gives more representation to people in smaller states than to the 30 million people in California." He missed the entire point. The Senate doesn't represent population — that's the House. The Senate represents the states, each equally, by design. The Founders set it up that way precisely so that large states couldn't steamroll small ones. As The Gateway Pundit noted, Gordillo went to Yale and still doesn't understand the basic structure of the government he wants to dismantle.
This is the same crowd that compares itself to the Soviet Union's critics while pushing a program that would consolidate all federal power in a single parliamentary body — exactly the kind of unchecked majoritarianism the Constitution was written to prevent.
The question isn't whether DSA's agenda is radical. It's whether Democratic leaders who claim to oppose it will keep accepting the votes, the volunteers, and the organizational muscle of a movement that wants to burn down the republic.
