Abolish the Senate and watch democracy sweep the nation.
Such is the promise of today’s leftists. Earlier this month, the Democratic Socialists of America released an updated platform calling for the abolition of the United States Senate. To replace it, they propose a single federal legislative chamber elected through proportional representation. Ashik Siddique, the DSA’s national chair, has argued that the Senate’s equal representation rule is “very undemocratic at a basic level,” and informed the voting public that DSA members “just don’t see the point of the Senate.” Ironically, protecting America from radical ideologues like Siddique is the entire point of the Senate, and the reason that Article V currently has only one exception to the amendment process: “that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.”
If abolishing the Senate were a fringe view held by few voters, it would hold no relevance in today’s national discussion. Alas, many Demo…
