stuckmiddle.substack.com/p/the-secular-religion-thats-eating

The sentence is presented as a summary of items in the linked DSA platform. But the DSA program’s immigration plank is titled "Abolish ICE" and says: "End ICE detention and deportations ... Legalize migration ... provide a path to citizenship ... and end visa caps and quotas." It does not say to abolish all border security, eliminate all border controls, or end customs/border enforcement as such. Saying the platform means "No border security" overstates what the linked document actually says.

The article links to DSA’s official 2026 program as support for this list of platform items. But in that program, the relevant plank is "Defund the Department of War", not eliminate it. That is a different claim: defunding an agency or department is not the same as abolishing or eliminating it. Because the article presents this as a description of what the linked platform says, the wording overstates the platform’s actual text.

The article cites Pew’s 2025 religion-and-politics report for this point, but that report does not describe the religiously unaffiliated as overwhelmingly liberal overall.

Pew’s own table shows that among religiously unaffiliated Americans, 42% identify as liberal/very liberal, 39% as moderate, and 15% as conservative/very conservative. That means liberals are the largest single ideological group, but not an overwhelming share. Pew also notes that the only religious groups with a majority identifying as ideologically liberal are atheists (67%) and agnostics (57%). By contrast, among people whose religion is "nothing in particular"—a large part of the unaffiliated population—about half say they are moderate or give no answer.

So the evidence supports saying the unaffiliated are more liberal than many religious groups, not that they are overwhelmingly liberal as a whole.