How might the Founding Fathers respond to the DSA plan to rewrite the Constitution?

[SolitarySolace]

I believe the Founding Fathers shown here would overwhelmingly reject the DSA’s proposals to replace major parts of the constitutional system they created.

George Washington would likely view abolishing or replacing core institutions as a threat to the national unity and constitutional order he spent his later life building and defending.

Benjamin Franklin supported reform and adaptation, but he also urged compromise and accepted the Constitution as the best system the Convention could produce. I believe he would favor lawful amendments over dismantling the structure entirely.

John Adams feared concentrated power, factionalism, and unchecked majorities. He would likely strongly oppose eliminating constitutional checks such as an independent judiciary and a bicameral legislature.

Alexander Hamilton defended a strong federal government, an energetic executive, the Senate, and an independent judiciary. He would probably be among the DSA agenda’s fiercest opponents.

James Madison, the principal architect of the Constitution, designed checks and balances specifically because no faction or temporary majority should control the entire government. He would likely see the DSA’s proposals as destroying those safeguards.

Thomas Jefferson was more suspicious of centralized power and more open to periodic reform, but he championed natural rights and limited government. I do not believe he would accept replacing the Founders’ system with centralized socialist control.

Overall, they might support constitutional amendments and reforms through the process they created, but I believe they would resist an agenda aimed at abolishing major institutions and replacing their constitutional republic with an entirely different political order.

Radical DSA manifesto calls to abolish presidency, US Senate and Electoral College - https://nypost.com/2026/07/16/us-news/radical-dsa-manifesto-calls-to-abolish-presidency-us-senate-and-electoral-college/

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[BadApple69]

They (our founding fathers) would pick up arms against these people. They want to change this country into something unrecognizable. No REAL American wants that. They pretend like communism doesn’t have leaders. One big difference is… you don’t vote in your communist leaders, nor can you vote them out.
The problem today is that schools don’t teach about the horrors of communism and that socialism is just a short hop skip and a jump away from communism.
But make no mistake DSA are communists. They want to seize means of production, they want a living wage so everyone gets paid by the government. Equity is important to them which means that everyone gets paid equally. So those who work hard get as much as those that don’t work at all. That system doesn’t work. No one will work. Socialism/Communist have failed everywhere it’s been tried.
Oh and the big one…. DSA wants wide open borders. Everyone can come in and get equitable wages and free medical, free collage…. Everything free. No one pays all free all the time. What could be better than that?


Someone has to pay though.

[darkcloud1945]

The Founding Fathers were 250 years ahead of the Democrats of today, trying to change our way of life by changing or replacing the Constitution with the Communist Manifesto. Hopefully, the people are smart enough to see through this.

[sage2021]

They would turn over in their graves!! 😔

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧡

[Smegskull]

I think they would recognise the similarity to what they did to their monarch.

[exitseven]

There would be a lot of public hangings.

[strateguy632]

deportation

[canamlusciouslad73]

Who cares? Most were slave owners !!!

[Cidknee]

With gunfire

[Cidknee]

Then for survivors a rope.