Two hundred and fifty years ago last week, a handful of extraordinary men risked their fortunes, their families, and their necks to build a republic the world had never seen. They didn’t wing it, either. They designed a system of checks and balances so resilient it has absorbed a civil war, two world wars, and every species of political chaos a growing nation could throw at it. That system endured because every generation understood — in their bones — that it was worth protecting.

But while most Americans were grilling burgers and watching fireworks last Friday, a growing political movement was busy drafting blueprints for a country the Founders wouldn’t recognize. And I don’t mean tweaking a few policies around the margins. I mean taking a wrecking ball to the entire constitutional structure.

From Fox News:

As many of its candidates notch electoral wins nationwide, the pre-eminent socialist political group in the U.S., the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), plans to roll out an updated platform that includes eliminating the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by Congress.

According to a source familiar with the DSA’s planning, the organization plans to roll out an update next week to its long-term vision for a U.S. policy platform. The update includes eliminating the U.S. Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive branch and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.

Read that again, slowly. The Democratic Socialists of America want to abolish the United States Senate — the institution the Founders specifically created to cool the passions of the mob and protect the smaller states from being steamrolled. They want to strip the presidency of its independence and turn the Supreme Court into a lapdog for whatever single legislative body they cook up. Their own documents call for a “new democratic constitution.” Not an amendment. Not a reform. A replacement.

A blueprint to demolish the republic

It somehow manages to get even more radical from there. The Denver Gazette reported that the DSA’s National Political Committee has also floated abolishing the entire law enforcement and prison system. Gone. They want to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine. They’re pushing amnesty for every illegal immigrant regardless of status, voting rights for noncitizens and convicted felons, and defunding what they cheerfully rebrand as the “Department of War.”

This is not some dorm-room manifesto scrawled on a whiteboard at 2 a.m. This is the governing platform of an organization boasting more than 100,000 members across all 50 states. And here’s the part that should make every American sit up straight: their candidates are winning.

The socialist vanguard is already inside the gates

The movement’s most visible champion is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani — a DSA member and Ugandan immigrant who stunned the political world by toppling former Governor Andrew Cuomo. Let me say that again for emphasis. A self-described socialist is running the largest city in America.

Since Mamdani’s victory, the momentum has only accelerated. In Colorado, DSA-backed Melat Kiros knocked off longtime Congresswoman Diana DeGette in a primary that nobody saw coming. In New York, Darializa Avila-Chevalier dispatched another sitting Democrat. These aren’t fringe candidates screaming into a megaphone on a street corner. They’re replacing actual members of Congress.

After their latest string of victories, the DSA proclaimed that “only socialism can solve decades of capitalist mismanagement in the U.S.” Pause on that phrasing. They’re not offering to work within the American system. They think the American system is the problem.

Kiros herself has promised to abolish ICE and declared, “We will not wait to end the genocide in Palestine.” She’s even called for cutting U.S. funding for Israel’s Iron Dome — the defensive shield that intercepts rockets aimed at civilians. Defensive. As in, it literally saves lives. And she wants it defunded.

It doesn’t stop at the Constitution

The broader DSA platform reads like a greatest-hits compilation of every policy that has cratered an economy from Havana to Caracas. Medicare for All. Universal rent control. A 32-hour work week at full pay — because apparently math is optional. Cancellation of all student debt. Lifting sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran. Open borders with unrestricted migration.

For those of us who actually remember the Cold War — who watched families separated by the Berlin Wall and Soviet citizens queuing for bread in gray, crumbling cities — the word “socialist” carries weight. It isn’t a quirky Instagram aesthetic. It’s a cautionary tale written in human suffering.

Rep. Lauren Boebert nailed it: “They are showing their true colors, saying we want socialism. And inevitably, we want communism.”

The Founders built a constitutional republic engineered to withstand precisely this kind of radical ambition. But the blueprints only hold if citizens bother to defend them. Every one of these DSA candidates will appear on a ballot this November. Whether the rest of us show up to meet them there — well, that’s the only question that actually matters now.

Key Takeaways

• The DSA wants to abolish the Senate and dismantle the separation of powers entirely.
• Socialist-backed candidates are defeating sitting Democrats across the country, not just talking.
• Their platform demands open borders, amnesty, defunding the military, and noncitizen voting rights.
• Americans who remember the Cold War know exactly where socialism leads — and it isn’t freedom.

Sources: Fox News, Denver Gazette