_WHAT’S HAPPENING_
The rapidly growing Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is preparing to release an updated policy platform that would dismantle and fundamentally reshape the US government and economy.
The formation of the most extreme agenda in modern American history comes at a time when DSA-endorsed candidates have scored major victories over longtime Democrat incumbents in New York, Colorado, and elsewhere.
_THE FACTS_
DSA’s new platform will call for eliminating the Senate entirely and creating an executive branch and judiciary subordinate to Congress.
The DSA's existing platform includes a 32-hour work week, a $30 minimum wage, canceling all student debt, eliminating cash bail, and universal rent control.
It also demands an "immediate end to all deportations" and extending voting rights to noncitizens and people with criminal convictions.
Socialist Melat Kiros, who just ousted a 15-term Democrat incumbent in Colorado, says the Green New Deal is merely a starting point for even more radical climate and energy policies.
Kiros also advocates for, as do most Democratic Socialists, abolishing ICE and establishing Medicare for All.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) remains the DSA's most prominent elected official.
Darializa Avila-Chevalier, a DSA-backed candidate in New York's 13th District, argues that border enforcement is rooted in "anti-Blackness and Islamophobia."
Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed endorsed "any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons" during a 2020 webinar with a prison abolition group.
After its recent primary wins, DSA proclaimed that "only socialism can solve decades of capitalist mismanagement in the US."
_OUR TAKE_
El-Sayed in Michigan wants to mass-release prisoners. Kiros in Colorado wants the $93 trillion Green New Deal to be just the beginning. And most of the rest want total amnesty for illegal migrants and an open border.
Make no mistake about what DSA is proposing. Every part of its platform either directly advocates for or gestures toward the complete dismantling of the American constitutional order. Abolishing the Senate, stripping the presidency of real power, and subordinating the judiciary to Congress collapses the separation of powers that has defined American governance for over two centuries.














