AdvertisementI grew up in Miami and attended school with Cuban children whose families had escaped Castro’s revolution. This is why I believe every American should read the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) 2026 Workers Deserve More! AdvertisementThe DSA calls for a new constitution and a “democratic socialist republic.” Its intentions may sound democratic, but its concentration of power is foreign to America’s system of checks and balances. Of course, that history does not prove every democratic socialist seeks dictatorship, but it does require us to ask what would restrain a future majority once constitutional restraints were removed.