DSA Co-Chair Romer Defends Proposals to Abolish Senate, ICE, Prisons

On this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Democratic Socialists of America co-chair Megan Romer defended their proposals to abolish Senate, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and prisons.

Partial transcript as follows:

SHANNON BREAM: We’re going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. And I want to ask you, just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate? ROMER: True. BREAM: OK, replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them? ROMER: Yep BREAM: Abolish ICE? ROMER: Absolutely. BREAM: Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US illegally? ROMER: As a long-term plan, yep. BREAM: Defund the Pentagon? ROMER: Absolutely. BREAM: Abolish prisons, at least in large part? ROMER: Yeah, again, as part of a long-term program, yeah? BREAM: OK, so no prisons. Government or public ownership of most large corporations? ROMER: Yeah, absolutely. BREAM: Okay, so then let’s go back through some of those, then, abolish the Senate. There are people who are in the Senate now who are very supportive of DSA. They lose their seats? ROMER: Well, the Senate is an anachronistic institution, and it comes from the British House of Lords. It is meant to protect power. You know, the Senate was part of the, the system that was made to make sure that the people didn’t have too much of a say. So we want to expand the Congress significantly, but make it a unicameral legislature.

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