The national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America went on Fox News Sunday and calmly affirmed her organization's platform to abolish the Senate, ICE, prisons, and national borders, positions that even some Democrats now warn could wreck their party.
Megan Romer, the DSA's co-chair, sat across from Fox News anchor Shannon Bream and answered "true" or "yes" to a rapid-fire series of questions about the group's official positions. Abolish the Senate? True. Abolish ICE? Absolutely. Defund the Pentagon? Yes. Government ownership of most large corporations? Yes. Eliminate national borders? Yes, as a long-term goal. Phase out prisons? Yes. Grant amnesty to every person living in the country illegally? Yes.
Romer did not hedge. She did not reframe. She confirmed each plank of the DSA platform as though reading from a checklist, which, in effect, she was. The exchange amounted to a public inventory of how far left the organization that fields candidates on the Democratic ballot line is willing to go.
When Bream pressed Romer on the proposal to abolish the United States Senate, Romer offered a constitutional critique that would have startled the Founders. She told Bream:
"The Senate was part of the system that was made to make sure that the people didn't have too much of a say. So we want to expand [Congress] significantly, but make it a unicameral legislature."
She compared the chamber directly to the British House of Lords, calling it an "anachronistic institution" designed to protect entrenched power rather than represent voters. The DSA's vision, she said, is a single legislative body, a European-style parliament with no upper chamber and no structural check on majoritarian impulse.
Put plainly, the DSA wants to scrap the constitutional design that gives small states equal representation in the Senate, a feature the Framers built specifically to prevent large-population centers from steamrolling the rest of the country. Romer treated that safeguard as a defect.
The DSA's ambitions extend beyond Congress. The New York Post reported that the organization recently released a manifesto titled "Workers Deserve More," which calls for dismantling the executive branch, the Senate, and the Electoral College in favor of a parliamentary system. Romer's Sunday interview tracked those proposals almost line by line.
On immigration, Romer confirmed that the DSA supports abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement and granting amnesty to illegal immigrants currently in the country. She went further, describing the elimination of national borders as part of the organization's "longer-term, international plan."
That language matters. Romer was not describing a policy tweak or a shift in enforcement priorities. She was describing the eventual erasure of the nation-state's most basic function, controlling who enters and who does not. For voters who have watched border security collapse into a political football for years, the DSA's position is not a thought experiment. It is a stated objective.
Romer also confirmed the DSA's support for defunding the Pentagon and phasing out prisons. She framed both as part of the organization's "long-term vision," a phrase that did little to soften the scope of what she was proposing. Defunding the military and eliminating the prison system are not incremental reforms. They are wholesale rejections of the federal government's most elementary responsibilities: national defense and public safety.
The DSA's platform also calls for shifting most large corporations to public ownership, a position Romer confirmed without qualification. That plank alone would represent the largest seizure of private enterprise in American history, dwarfing anything attempted outside wartime.
What makes Romer's candor more than an academic exercise is the DSA's relationship with the Democratic Party. Romer explained that the DSA fields candidates on the Democratic ballot line because the two major parties have, "over years and decades, created a system where ballot line access is extremely difficult for third parties."
She was blunt about the arrangement:
"We run on the Democratic ballot line where it makes sense. We run [independents] sometimes where that is a viable possibility, but it's a ballot line. What matters is what the voters think, and the voters are overwhelmingly choosing our candidates."
That last claim, "the voters are overwhelmingly choosing our candidates", is not empty boasting. DSA-backed candidates have defeated several establishment Democrats in primary elections, making the organization the leading force on the Democratic Party's progressive wing, as the Washington Examiner noted. The DSA is not operating on the fringes. It is winning races inside the Democratic Party's own machinery.
New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani offers the clearest example. Despite attempts to distance himself from the DSA's most radical national positions, Mamdani has publicly called himself a "proud member" of the organization. "It continues to be my political home; I continue to be a proud member," he said, even as his recent budget deal forced him to abandon key campaign pledges.
The pattern is consistent: DSA members claim the Democratic label to win elections, then advance an agenda that bears no resemblance to what most Democratic voters, let alone the broader electorate, actually support.
A growing number of prominent Democrats have warned that the party risks alienating voters by embracing DSA-backed positions. Rep. Henry Cuellar rejected the DSA agenda outright, saying socialists are trying to "use" the Democratic Party. Centrist voices including Van Jones and Bill Maher have publicly disavowed their party's leftward drift ahead of November's midterm elections.
Breitbart reported that Romer's interview amounted to a direct, on-the-record confirmation of the DSA's most radical positions, the kind of admissions that Republican strategists have long argued represent the Democratic Party's true direction. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise framed it in national terms: "DSA isn't just gaining influence in New York or California... these ideas could be coming to your community sooner than you think."
Scalise's warning tracks with what has already happened in Democratic primaries. DSA candidates have not merely competed, they have won, displacing incumbents and pulling the party's policy center sharply to the left. The question is no longer whether the DSA influences the Democratic Party. It is whether any faction inside the party has the will or the leverage to push back.
So far, the evidence is not encouraging. James Carville has gone so far as to call for a formal party split over DSA-backed primary winners. Sen. John Fetterman has condemned the party's far-left drift in unusually sharp terms. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has publicly distanced himself from the Democratic left as he eyes 2028.
But warnings without consequences are just noise. As long as DSA candidates keep winning primaries on the Democratic ballot line, the party's establishment critics are losing the argument where it counts, at the ballot box.
The most striking feature of Romer's interview was not the content of her answers. Every position she confirmed has been part of the DSA platform for years. What stood out was her willingness to say it all on national television, without caveat, without spin, and without apology.
That confidence tells you something. The DSA does not believe these positions are political liabilities, at least not within the Democratic primary electorate that decides who carries the party's label. Romer's posture was that of someone who believes the wind is at her back.
Whether she is right about that will be tested in November. But the positions she confirmed, abolish the Senate, abolish ICE, erase borders, empty prisons, defund the military, nationalize corporations, are now a matter of public record, delivered calmly and without hedging by the leader of the organization that keeps winning Democratic primaries.
Voters who pull the lever for a Democrat this fall deserve to know what rides alongside that ballot line. Megan Romer just told them.