The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) just published an update to their party's platform calling for the abolition of the United States Senate, the replacement of the presidency with a congressional puppet executive, full amnesty for every illegal immigrant in the country, and voting rights for noncitizens. They published the whole thing on their website like it was a lunch menu.
The DSA's updated platform calls for what the organization describes as a "new democratic constitution" — one that would establish a "single federal legislature" based on proportional representation. The Senate? Gone. The presidency? Replaced by an executive "chosen by and subordinate to Congress." The Supreme Court? Same deal — a judiciary "chosen by and subordinate to Congress." Every check and balance the Founders built into the system, eliminated.
On immigration, the DSA demands "amnesty for all immigrants," an "immediate end to all deportations," and — this is a direct quote from their own materials — "free migration between countries without restrictive immigration controls." They also want to extend "full voting rights to people with criminal convictions and noncitizens." So the plan isn't just to open the border. It's to open the border, hand out ballots, and make sure the new arrivals can outvote you before they unpack.
The economic wish list reads like a college sophomore's dorm-room manifesto: a 32-hour work week "with no reduction in pay or benefits," Medicare for All, cancellation of all student loan debt, elimination of cash bail, and universal rent control. "Only socialism can solve decades of capitalist mismanagement in the U.S.," the DSA declared. They also want to defund what they call the "Department of War" and close overseas U.S. military bases.
These aren't fringe cranks yelling into a megaphone on a street corner. And while New York's recent swath of newly elected DSA members like Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila-Chevalier have been getting much of the attention, DSA members have been winning elections across the country. Melat Kiros defeated a sitting Democratic congressman in Colorado. Katie Wilson won the mayor's election in Seattle, Washington. DSA member Janeese Lewis George won the mayoral election in Washington D.C.
"Our newly elected leaders will fight for the working class — not for crumbs," the DSA said. What they didn't say is what happens to the 250-year-old constitutional framework that stands between their vision and the rest of us.
The mainstream media response has been predictably muted. Most major outlets haven't bothered to cover the platform at all. A political organization with elected allies in Congress publishes a blueprint to dismantle the constitutional structure of the United States government, and the networks apparently had better things to cover.
The Founders designed the Senate specifically to prevent the kind of majoritarian steamroll the DSA is proposing. They created the Electoral College, the separation of powers, and an independent judiciary because they understood — as James Madison warned — that tyranny doesn't require a king. It can be imposed just as easily by an unchecked majority.
The DSA looked at that warning and built a platform around it. They're not trying to win within the system. They're trying to replace the system. And they put it in writing, with bullet points, because they think enough Americans will read it and nod along.
That's the part worth paying attention to. Not the platform itself — we've seen radical wish lists before. It's that they're no longer bothering to disguise it as something else.
