The Democratic Socialists’ War on America

America’s most radical left-wing movement is no longer content to protest from outside; it is now working to dismantle the republic from within.

It would be a grave error to dismiss the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) as mere campus radicals or online agitators. In New York City and beyond, the group and its allies have scored primary victories, toppling incumbents and capturing nominations. The DSA wants power, and it is learning how to seize it.

That is why its agenda demands scrutiny.

In June, as City Journal reported, DSA national leadership adopted a revamped platform titled “Workers Deserve More!” The innocuous name belies a radical program to upend America’s constitutional order.

The document calls for scrapping the U.S. Senate, replacing the president and Supreme Court with bodies chosen by and subordinate to Congress, drafting a new constitution, and creating a “democratic socialist republic.” It goes far beyond higher taxes or regulation: it seeks to abolish the separation of powers crafted by the Founders.

The DSA is not demanding different policies. It is demanding a different country.

While much attention has focused on the party’s socialism and hostility to Israel, the deeper threat is its hostility to the American republic itself.

The platform calls for abolishing the “carceral forces of the capitalist state,” sharply cutting military power, granting amnesty to all illegal immigrants, ending sanctions on rogue regimes, and placing key industries under public ownership.

It would effectively erase America’s borders by allowing free migration, demilitarizing the frontier, ending detention and deportations, and granting full voting rights to noncitizens. Taken together, these steps would render American citizenship politically meaningless. Anyone could enter, stay, receive amnesty, and vote, thereby stripping the American people of their sovereign right to shape their nation’s future. That is not democracy; it is the disenfranchisement of citizens.

These proposals form a single ideological project: weakening every constitutional safeguard that constrains power and protects Americans from radical rule. The DSA views the Founders’ checks and balances not as bulwarks of liberty but as obstacles to overcome.

When institutions stand in the way of the Left’s ambitions, they are branded illegitimate: the courts, the upper chamber of Congress, the police, borders, capitalism, even America’s military. What remains is raw power.

America is imperfect, but the DSA mistakes its flaws for its essence. Instead of building on the republic’s strengths, it seeks to uproot them in favor of ideological rule.

American Jews have rightly warned about the DSA’s anti-Zionism and antisemitism. Yet the danger extends to every citizen who values ordered liberty, constitutional government, public safety, private enterprise, secure borders, strong defense, or the rule of law.

America does not need a new constitution written by those who despise the old one. It needs renewed commitment to liberty under law, limited government, civic responsibility, free enterprise, religious freedom, and human dignity.

The DSA calls its platform democratic socialism. Americans should recognize it for what it is: an assault on the republic. And it must be vigorously opposed before these ideas move from the fringes to the mainstream.