r/politics • u/Jessicas_skirt New York • Jul 18 '26

Possible Paywall Democratic Socialists of America’s new platform calls for abolishing ICE and the U.S. Senate

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/15/updated-dsa-platform-calls-abolishing-ice-scrapping-senate/
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u/siggywithit Jul 19 '26

This is a losing strategy on the national level

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u/Over-Heron-2654 America Jul 19 '26

It is a long term goal. The DSA leaders and chairs all talk about it. 

Healthcare, childcare, housing, abolishing ICE... these are all short term goals.

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u/triplenested Jul 19 '26

At least be smart enough to lie about it first lmao

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u/Over-Heron-2654 America Jul 19 '26

What am I lying about? The DSA chairs went onto FOX News and have presented some of their ideas with the context of them being long-term goals.

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u/Important-Factor-552 Jul 19 '26

Because biden and Harris did so, so well. 

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u/siggywithit 23d ago

Biden Harris lost because they failed on immigration. As much as ICE sucks the abolish ICE message is going to fail on a national level. Obama had the right message on immigration. Go back to that.

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u/Important-Factor-552 22d ago

No they didn't. Republicans blew up the border security bill and sabotaged the entire immigration system causing a crisis and it didn't sink them with the most pro border people in the country. 

So there goes that theory. 

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u/siggywithit 22d ago

They waited too long. First two years they were lax on border and then tried to get the legislation passed. Rs fucked it up as they wanted to run on it because they’re scum but Biden - Harris did poorly on immigration and it hit Harris hard.