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DSA radicals trying to centralize power by scrapping the Senate are completely ignorant of our history

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The Democratic Socialists of America don’t like being called Communists, though many members might echo the sentiment of leftist influencer Hasan Piker when he says, “I don’t have an issue with an end goal of communism.”

Yet however the group self-identifies, its agenda is openly revolutionary.

Its plans call for, among other things, abolishing the US Senate and making the executive branch and the Supreme Court subservient to the House of Representatives.

Like many a revolutionary organ, the DSA acts as a party within a party, and it increasingly represents the youth wing of the Democrats.

Elected officials aligned with the group, like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, look to be the future of the party.

Yet the DSA’s ideas are remarkably old-fashioned — so old, in fact, they were refuted by John Adams in 1787.

That was the year he began publishing a multi-volume work called “A Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America.” (It was so long ago Americans still spelled “defence” with a “c.”)

The book refers to “constitutions,” plural, because Adams hadn’t seen the new US Constitution drawn up in Philadelphia that year: He was actually defending the state constitutions against French intellectuals who insisted they should be more radical.

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