For many of us who were raised in liberal, Democratic families, the infusion of socialist, anti-free-speech, and anti-Semitic elements into the party has been alarming. The party was always in favor of social welfare programs but remained ardently committed to free markets and free speech. Now, we have CNN anchors openly questioning whether candidates are too Jewish-looking for the Democratic base as socialists sweep away establishment candidates. A recent poll reaffirmed that trend with a vast majority of Democrats saying that they are prepared to support the socialists.
A recent Economist/YouGov survey asked respondents, “Would you ever vote for a candidate who identified as a “Democratic Socialist?”
While 85 percent of Republicans and 40 percent of independents said that they would not vote for socialists, 62 percent of Democrats said that they would. Among self-described liberals, the percent of support for socialism soars to 73 percent.
For Kamala Harris supporters, 64 percent would support socialists.
Even more alarming is the preference of Democrats for socialism over capitalism. Some 34 percent chose socialism while only 22 percent chose capitalism. Overall, 58 percent of Democrats view socialism in general “favorably.”
It is not surprising that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders went on YouTube this week to proclaim that “we are on the verge of the political revolution” that they have long sought to fundamentally change our system.
In Rage and the Republic, I discuss this shift toward socialism:
“Much of the anti-capitalist movement is composed of young people who have never lived under a socialist or communist government. Popular politicians like Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) have made socialism chic, alongside wealthy celebrity adherents such as Lawrence O’Donnell, Susan Sarandon, Michael Moore, and Sarah Silverman. There is a superficiality to many in this movement of wealthy celebrities wearing socialism on their designer sleeves. In one of the most glaring disconnects, Ocasio-Cortez attended the ritzy Met Gala (where tickets cost tens of thousands of dollars) wearing a designer dress with ‘Tax the Rich’ in large letters. It perfectly captured America’s armchair socialists, a commitment that often seems more performative than philosophical.”
Democratic establishment figures are maneuvering to stay ahead of the mob, many offering the far left the Supreme Court as bona fide. Others are staying silent as anti-Semitic figures fill their ranks.
Some politicians are struggling to curry support with the growing socialist movement. Rep. Dan Goldman, who inherited a massive fortune as a trust baby, unwisely promised to help subsidize his campaign from his family fortune. With the addition of three homes, Goldman looked like the Richie Rich of the Democratic Party and lost by over 30 points.
Others are trying to downplay their wealth, from Rep. Ro Khanna, who reportedly has half a billion dollars from his wife’s inheritance, to Gov. Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker, who also inherited his fortune. Pritzker assured the mob that he is a different kind of billionaire, pointing at Trump billionaires as the rightful targets (not him with $4.3 billion).
Notably, votes for socialists are not coming from blue-collar workers but from young, college-educated voters. These younger voters never experienced or watched the collapse of socialist systems in the last century. For them, the promise of the Mamdani’s of the “warmth of collectivism.”
Jonathan Turley is a law professor and the New York Times best-selling author of “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Great news, Professor!
It sounds as if the blue minority viewpoint will end up splitting the party in 2028, while the GOP will eventually unify against the Red Threat.
Midterms may be a mess, but if Republicans are smart, RUBIO/? 2028 will win by a landslide, thanks to a huge surge in Spanish-speaking voters finally believing that someone with a shot at real power is speaking to them.
Let the Commies BRING IT ON!
It apparently comes as a shock to boomer conservatives that their Perpetual War economy isn’t flying well with younger Americans stuck paying the inflation bills caused by the Perpetual War economy.
Are you being paid to troll this page? Sounds like it.
Why would younger Americans care about inflation? They are not the one’s paying the bill. Their parents are,
Many Gen Z adults still get financial help from their parents
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/12/many-gen-z-adults-still-get-financial-help-from-their-parents.html
A record 25 million adults under 35 are living with their parents
https://thehill.com/business/5939823-25-million-adults-live-at-home-study/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Socialism would be great if we had the “right people” running things and NOW WE DO! The socialist utopia is around the corner. YAY!!
And remember JT your previous liberal positions will do you no good with these people, you’re a “nazi” too!
antonio
How do Jews in the democratic party come to terms with the obvious antisemitic direction candidates are taking? Is it, we’re alright with it, because we hate Trump even more? These aren’t just isolated, fringe candidates. The pro Palestine movement has no interest in being a big tent for everyone. I have to wonder when the big money donors start to pull away from this. Are they really able to separate “Anti-Israel” from being anti-Jew? That would appear to be slicing the pastrami pretty thin.
It appears “never forget” has been forgotten by many.
Every socialist loving democrat should do a deep dive into the history of the brown shirts. They had great power and force right up to the moment that Hitler decided he no longer needed them. Then they became merely “useful idiots.”
Only in the future, it would be the Islamists who do them in.
What will happen when they turn on their fearless leader, Bernie Sanders, who is Jewish?
A couple thoughts. First, I think it’s been at least 100 years since Dems have been ardently in favor of free markets. Second, I would like to see the survey ask those same people if they would vote for a Communist, and if not, what they see as the difference between a socialist and a communist.
I doubt they would see any difference. I think that right now its all about getting “free stuff”. You have it, I don’t, so I’ll take some of yours. So far the warmth of collectivism hasn’t given way yet to the pain of totalitarianism. That seems to happen after the first part. I suppose once you have taken all that you can from others, the harsh reality settles in but its too late to do anything about it. Then you find out that there are still many out there that are more equal than the others.
Well, depending on well our media/education industry and our obama/autopen border policies were effective; we will either repeat either 1776 or 1793.
I doubt that “most Democrats” understand socialism well enough to truly like or dislike it. I think what we’re seeing is that the “counter-culture” of the Vietnam War era, which was full of “I smoke dope and I hate America”, has gradually morphed into a large segment of Democrats using dope and hating America because it’s a tribal thing to do. At the moment, so many Democrats hate the U.S., the police, white people, Christianity, societally-normal people, etc., that it’s probably going to take a fairly harsh response in order to get peoples’ attention.
So their great grandparents are responsible?
This may be may the dumbest take on any comment I have ever seen.
Here’s your sign.
Even Zappa knew:
“Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.”
Emil Zappa was a wise man. Before his time.
Re: “ not coming from blue-collar workers”. There weren’t any blue collar workers at the Wannsee Conference either. Quite a few PhD’s among that lot. How the social strata settles out in the collectivistic Society is going to be a surprise to these newbies. They won’t find themselves on the reviewing stand but rather waiting in the queue for stale bread.
I don’t buy the idea that a lot of these folks know what they’re actually signing onto when they say they “like” socialism. They hear fairness and more free stuff, not a deliberate move away from the entire 1776 settlement that tied self‑government to a commercial, property‑owning society grounded in individual liberty, contracts and voluntary associations. In practical terms, a serious democratic socialist project is not just about more regulation or a bigger safety net within capitalism. It is about treating capitalism itself as illegitimate and pointing us toward a 19th century Marxist model where economic life is run from the top down by planners instead of citizens governing their own lives through markets and the rule of law.
People are being sold socialism like it is a pleasure cruise that will carry them into a happier, “more equal” life. They are told to buy the ticket, get on board and enjoy the scenery while the “experts” take care of everything. But once that ship leaves the dock, they find out they are not passengers, they are the crew. They are the ones down in the hold and on the decks, hauling lines and keeping the engines running, while a small class of ideological officers stays on the bridge, giving orders and deciding where the ship goes and who works where. The promise is that “the people” own the ship; the reality is that most people end up working the ship for someone else’s vision of the good society.
OLLY,
Well, as we can look at history when socialism has been tried, these people think,
“It will be different this time because we are doing it!”
To continue with your cruise ship analogy, the people who are the supposed officers in the bridge, have never stepped foot on a ship before and are trying to run it by watching YouTube.
The “crew” down in the engine room, same thing.
Kinda like how in Stalin’s USSR, they took the farms away from the farmers and put totally inexperienced people on their collectives.
Look how well that turned out.
The analogy was intended for you farmer. Being as dumb as you are, big words confuse you. Olly knows that and styles his comments for your kind.
“I don’t buy the idea that a lot of these folks know what they’re actually signing onto when…” You don’t? So you think its a big game for them? Win prizes etc…
You clearly have a dead spot in your head to state you’re smarter than the voters. How old were you when you first voted? Convinced you were righteous? And look where you are today,
a decrepit old fool hanging out on a blog all day long spewing some nonsense, whining about today’s kids as emptyheaded fools. At least they’re thinking and voting their conscience. They are the future and you are angry you can’t control the scenario. All of you old ranting fools.
You’re days are over old man, go away.
Just as a reminder,
It is a typical pattern by the annonys.
Usually in the morning, there is the insulting annony, calling everyone’s comments stupid, boomer, go take a nap, or the like.
Then there is the TDS annony who says something BS about Trump and then responds to itself in rapid fire agreeing with itself.
Then there is the health deflection annony who makes wild claims about Trump’s health with no evidence and has been wrong about that how many times?
Then there is the annony who claims all other annonys are Estovir. I am guessing somewhere in the past Estovir must of really owned that annony, not that it would be hard.
Then there is this strawman annony. It appears my comment to you to ignore it really got under its skin.
How marvelous!
Of course there is the annony who sounds a lot like X/Gigi/Esquire/etc. with really poorly rewritten AI responses.
Uh huh, I read Animal Farm. Do young people read any more? They watch Instagram videos of “genocide”.
Democrats are clearly fascists
Who hate America
Proof? Facts? Witnesses? Any pending charges? Na, didn’t think so.
Laughable, it’s never worked anywhere. It’s resulted in mass genocide while following the transition to totalitarian communism. Capitalism on the other hand has proven to benefit more people than any other form of government. Its only failings are allowing greed and corruption to overwhelm the true benefit to a free society.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA
Anywhere? You’ve lived in all those failed states? So you know first hand.
Too many of the people who did know are dead, but we appreciate your input, Mr. Pol Pot.
“In the future, you will own nothing, and you will be happy.” Sounds kind of like a fentanyl addict. If one wants to euthanize America, that’s the way to do it.
“Notably, votes for socialists are not coming from blue-collar workers but from young, college-educated voters.”
Yes, because a socialist state offers them careers as petty bureaucrats with relatively high salaries, little real work, no chance of being fired, and hefty pensions. – plus, the pleasure of lording it over other citizens. For people with liberal arts degrees, which generally means no marketable skills, this is a promise of heaven on earth. That is also why socialism has been called “the will to power of the New Class.”
edwardmahl,
Well said.
Once companies saw how DEI added nothing to their bottom line other than annoying the rest of the company with mandatory “feel guilty for your (insert supposed grievance here) the companies closed their DEI division and all those DEI grads, having no other valuable skills were fired.
Now they are all mad at the world for having high student debt for their useless DEI degrees that they chose and working a baristas and still living at home with their parents.
Of course they will vote for socialism to get back into cushy, well paying jobs to do nothing but annoy others by lecturing them about . . . something.
Of course they will vote for socialism to get back into cushy, well paying jobs … where is it posted that socialism is about cushy jobs? What stupidity you exhibit. Got anything intelligent to post? Didn’t think so.
You quoted something or someone, but no source.
This has been expected heresince 1948. theJew Haters in this country need to be prepared for what they are going to confront. It wiil make the Polish resistance during the second world war look like a Sunday walk in the park.
What Jew haters? Since 1948? Where TF do you come up with such nonsense?
Won’t spell it out in large block letters for you. Wasteomahtyme!
For you? You need to think that dumbshit through old man. Script of block, your choice.
He asks “what Jew haters” playing dumb as to all the new candidates winning Democrat primaries. It’s just such a stupid lie that it’s aggravating just reading it.
This article explains how the party that supports socialism is against regime change in Venezuela and Cuba. This is because they don’t want to harm their comrades.
The People rule! Death to America. Death to maga.
Stupid
Do the people rule if they don’t agree?
Do people agree if they don’t rule?