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DSA Co-Chair Says Abolishing the Senate Is 'Not Extreme' — Also Wants to Replace Capitalism

Ashik Siddique, the national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, went on the record July 10 to confirm that abolishing the United States Senate is part of DSA's official platform. Not reforming it. Not restructuring it. Abolishing it.

"That's part of our platform," Siddique said. "We don't think that's extreme. We think it's a change that will make the country more democratic."

Not extreme. Eliminating an entire branch of Congress — one that has existed since 1789 — is apparently just a modest tweak to make things run a little smoother. Like rearranging the furniture, except the furniture is the constitutional framework of the oldest functioning republic on the planet.

But Siddique wasn't done. The DSA co-chair also confirmed the organization's broader ambitions in terms that would have been career-ending a decade ago. "Our goal is to replace capitalism with socialism," Siddique stated. "That power is not conceded without struggle."

As RedState reported on July 14, the remarks drew attention not just for their content but for the casual confidence with which they were delivered. This wasn't a leaked private conversation or an off-the-cuff gaffe. This was a sitting political leader of the DSA articulating the organization's platform as though abolishing a co-equal branch of government were as routine as updating a party bylaws document.

The constitutional math alone makes the proposal absurd. Article V requires ratification by three-fourths of the states to amend the Constitution. Good luck convincing Wyoming, Montana, and the other small states that they should voluntarily surrender their equal representation in the body specifically designed to protect their interests.

But the constitutional impossibility isn't really the point. The point is the goal itself — and what it reveals about the coalition that mainstream Democrats have chosen to share a tent with.

Consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a DSA member now running the largest city in the country. When ABC pressed Mamdani on DSA positions like abolishing prisons and open borders — noting that "most of Americans won't go along with that" — Mamdani's response was instructive. Asked if we can really "disagree on something as basic as we should have prisons," Mamdani offered only: "There are prisons."

That's the rhetorical strategy. Don't deny the radical positions. Don't defend them with arguments. Just acknowledge that reality currently exists and wait for the interviewer to move on.

Program Director Ashley Mahoney and other DSA-adjacent officials have grown increasingly comfortable stating these positions publicly, which raises a fair question for every Democrat currently serving in the Senate: Do you agree with the DSA co-chair that eliminating your own chamber is "not extreme"? Because silence on a platform that calls for abolishing the institution you serve in is its own kind of answer.

The DSA platform now includes abolishing the Senate, abolishing prisons, establishing open borders, allowing illegals to vote, and replacing capitalism with socialism. Five positions. Each one individually disqualifying in any serious political party. Together, they read less like a governing agenda and more like a list of things you'd scrawl on a dorm room whiteboard at 2 a.m.

Siddique said the quiet part loud, and the quiet part turns out to be a full-throated confession. Replace the economic system. Eliminate the legislative body designed to prevent mob rule. Tear down the prisons. Erase the borders.

The Senate was designed to slow things down — to force deliberation over impulse, compromise over revolution. That's exactly why they want it gone.

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