Fetterman criticized democratic socialist positions of “abolish the Senate, … abolish the presidency, abolish the border, abolish prison, and the presidency.” He also argued that Democratic leaders should call out those ideas instead of pretending they are just harmless chatter in deep blue enclaves. Raju then asked DelBene the obvious question: “So, Congresswoman, should you call out the democratic socialists and police your kind of ranks and repudiate the platform of the Democratic Socialists of America?” DelBene’s claim that Democrats are “united” on affordability is also a convenient way to avoid saying what they are not united against. That message writes itself when party leaders treat socialism like a local zoning dispute instead of an ideological infection spreading through their ranks.