The far-Left group Democratic Socialists of America is having a moment. With rising DSA stars heading to Congress and its longtime ally Zohran Mamdani now New York City mayor, the fringe activists have never been closer to the mainstream. So, they’re tactically retreating from some of their most extreme ideas and trying to present themselves more palatably.Just kidding. That’s what any organization with a semblance of practicality or self-awareness would do. So, naturally, the DSA is doing the opposite.It just released a new platform, “Workers Deserve More,” that is exponentially more radical, more explicitly anti-American, and more comically utopian than all its past platforms combined — and that’s saying something.
This is on display from its very first plank, which promises Americans that under their agenda, you “don’t really have bills anymore.” It suggests that mortgages, health insurance copays, retirement funds, food, energy, and medicine, will all be “free,” meaning no one will need to work to cover their own needs. Somehow, we are implicitly assured that there will be infinite money to fund this for everyone, and that society will be even more productive, despite the option to simply not work and have all your needs met anyway.To its credit, the DSA is not shy about the fact that its agenda is completely, utterly inconsistent with the United States as we know it. That’s why they explicitly propose things, like abolishing the Senate, that literally cannot be changed under our Constitution even via amendment, and openly suggest they intend to “draft a new Constitution.”While they’re at it, they throw in guarantees of taxpayer-funded abortion with no limits and taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming care” even for minors. Oh, and they promise to pay out reparations for slavery, drawing further from their imaginary money tree.People attend a Tax The Rich rally hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America at Lehman College in the borough of the Bronx in New York, NY, United States on March 29, 2026. (Photo by Jason Alpert-Wisnia / Hans Lucas / AFP via Getty Images)
