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The truth bombed
A top Democratic Socialists of America leader admitted the left-leaning group wants to abolish prisons, borders, the Senate and lots more during a bizarre but candid television interview.
DSA national co-chair Megan Romer laid out the radical wish-list Sunday during a round of “true or false” questions on Fox News.
“Just give me a true-or-false on these. Abolish the Senate,” Fox host Shannon Bream asked, to which the party leader answered: “True.”
Romer then gave affirmative answers for “abolish ICE,” “defund the Pentagon,” and “government ownership of large corporations.”
She said the party would “abolish borders,” give amnesty to illegal immigrants, and abolish prisons “as part of a long-term program.”
The DSA’s most high-profile comrade, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has pushed plans for the Big Apple includes city-owned grocery stores, more stabilized housing, and higher taxes for wealthy New Yorkers. Still, he has sought to distance himself from some of the group’s more radical goals, stating last year that, “My platform is not the same as national DSA.”
But he also said he was still a card-carrying socialist after he broke from the far-left group over his endorsements in several Democratic Party primaries for congressional seats.
“It continues to be my political home, I continue to be a proud member,” Mamdani insisted.
The TV interview from the DSA leader comes shortly after the group put out a new “Workers Deserve More” manifesto that called to scrap the executive branch, the Senate and Electoral College with the aim of ending the two-party system.
The move to tear up the US Constitution to emulate a European style parliamentary system where the US House of Representatives would appoint a prime minister-like leader and also choose members of the Supreme Court.
The declaration, which also called for ranked-choice voting in all elections, concluded that Congress is more democratic than the Senate because the upper chamber has two senators for each state regardless of population.
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