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Atlantic magazine's Jonathan Chait recently experienced a brief flirtation with political sanity when he expressed panic over the possibility of communists (who now call themselves socialists) taking over his beloved Democrat Party.However, alas, poor Chait relapsed and embraced one of the most fervent Mad Hatter delusions of the extreme left, as you can see in the very title of his Wednesday descent down the Socialist (Communist) rabbit hole: "Abolishing the Senate Might Be the DSA’s Best Idea."The subtitle assures no return trip for Chait, who just flushed away the concept of American federalism: "A teardown of the upper chamber would...

James Kirchick came down hard on the Democratic Socialists of America in Atlantic magazine. However, there was a problem. In order to ameliorate his harsh criticism of the that socialist party for acting as a "parasite" on the host Democrat party he also attempted to compare the DSA to MAGA as if they were both equally evil.Kirchick's obvious attempt to placate liberals with the absurd DSA/MAGA comparison appeared in "The DSA Is Only Using the Democratic Party." The subtitle made clear the low opinion Kirchick held of the DSA, "The left-wing faction is a parasite."Following a long-winded treatise on how...