A Center-Left Pundit and the DSA Agree: Let’s Abolish the Senate!

Politics A center-left pundit and the DSA actually agree on this. July 31, 202612:56 PM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Andres Kudacki/Getty Images and Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images. Democratic socialists have been riding a wave of recent successes: Their party defeated a pair of incumbent House Democrats in New York. There have been primary wins in Philadelphia and in Denver. In the wake of these achievements, Jonathan Chait, a staff writer at the Atlantic, has turned in a series of articles that characterize the Democratic Socialists of America as antidemocratic, against the Democratic Party, and even a hindrance to policy goals like universal healthcare. Chait, safe to say, is not a fan of the DSA. But when the organization released its official platform recently, tucked