The American right has spent much of the last week melting down about the Democratic Socialists of America’s “Workers Deserve More” platform. Many of the elements of the platform have predictably provoked the Right’s ire. The document, for example, calls for bringing the largest corporations under public ownership.

What might be less predictable is that, in a platform overflowing with ideas that socialists would be expected to like and conservatives would be expected to hate, the particular idea conservatives have picked out for special opprobrium is DSA’s call to abolish the Senate.

When Jacobin founder Bhaskar Sunkara recently appeared on Fox News, for example, he was confronted with what was presented as the extreme radicalism of the proposal. Sunkara’s response was simple: “I’m against the Senate. I think the Senate’s an undemocratic body.”