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 choose socialism while only 22 percent choose 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 “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.”
“Long live the Cuban Revolution”. This is the last sentence in a statement issued by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) on May 22, 2026, condemning the indictment of Raul Castro for his role in the shoot-down of two civilian, unarmed airplanes that killed three US citizens. The meaning of those five words, to an American of Cuban descent, is the embodiment of evil on earth. It represents sixty-six years of regression, poverty, inhumanity, death and suffering of millions of people ruled by an oligarchy run as a criminal enterprise. If you do not understand what those words represent, you are either a useful idiot or a communist.
I am not looking forward to the time when the young so called Socialists or the ones voting for them face reality, as reality always wins over ideology.
What the young are not seeing is the real lives of Soros, Mamdani, Warren and the other elites screaming at the top of their lungs for Socialism. Their lifestyles were achieved through capitalism and or manipulation. When the time comes, they will not be down there in the trenches. They will be in their compounds in Martha’s Vineyard, The Hamptons or the penthouses of what used to be New York.
The schools in not teaching about the real problems of socialism or communism are the ones partially to blame. As are parents for not holding school boards to account for not teaching the basic 3r’s and history.
I do take objection that the hippie generation is to blame. As one who grew up, participated and voted, I and others came to our senses. I hope that today’s young do the same.
RCS,
As I noted earlier, a number of these people who are calling for socialism come from very privileged backgrounds or have attained their fortune through capitalism as you point out.
Didnt the hippie generation of the 60s and 70s become the Yuppies of the 80s?
And once they got out of college, got jobs, got married, had kids, yes, they did come to their senses.
However, I would note that this generation is putting a lot of those things off till later in life or even at all. That might have something to do with the attraction to socialism. And failure to launch.
These are not coming to their senses because the job market for most college graduates is terrible. Most of them have no marketable skills without DEI and other make-work set-aside jobs. And they are angry. Very angry. They got hundreds of thousands of dollars in non-dischargable student debt, and no prospects. This all fits in with the theories of Peter Turchin that societies are always destroyed from within when they have overproduction of elites. These wanna-bee elites can’t take finding out that they aren’t wanted.
There is a job market, they just do not want to go to the effort to change, learn and apply. The trades are screaming for good workers and have a good pay structure and very little debt. They may even be able to pay off their student loans in no time if they apply themselves. I changed jobs twice in my career after I was married and had 2 children. I went from a business manager to operating a ski lift for the winter before operating a backhoe with no experience. After 40 years at construction I retired as a residential general contractor. No college debt and am living comfortably now.
Stop pampering and demanding performance and responsibility.
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!
Have a heart. Communists have never been hurting so bad as now. first Venezuela, all of Latin America turning red, tiny Cuba about to become a US protectorate, no more comrade oil for commie china, Iran toothless, I could go on all day!
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
Socialists can’t get past our Constitution. How are they gonna shut me up? Stop me from declaring my God is above them? Picking apart every dumb commie move? Can’t stop me from exercising my freedoms _guaranteed_ to me by the law of the land! Natural law takes care of communists, I just sit back and watch. and here we have a dumbocrat talking about inflation like we didn’t have 9%+ under biden. What’s worse than biden inflation? deflation!
“How are they gonna shut me up? ”
If you don’t think that, given enough political power, they could find some way to do just that, I suggest that you take good, hard, look at what has been going in the UK. Yes, the UK doesn’t have Bill of Rights, but when that document and the rest of the Constitution has been reduced in the minds of most voters to nothing but meaningless words on an old scrap of paper, which is one of the things the Democrats are trying to do, the effective differences between our nation and theirs are minimized.
That was me, I Don Wannutono
Fear not, that’s not gonna happen. We are not the UK, not even close. American exceptionalism is in our blood and it makes the world go around. A bunch of know-it-all punk kids can’t change that.
You’re so far off with that one. I don’t think if you asked most Boomers if they support the industrial war complex you would get many takers. It’s not the people that create those markets, it’s the corrupt politicians and corporations. The Democrats seem to find a way more often than the Republicans but they are both corrupted by power and money.
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
Dear Anonymous,
You may be surprised to learn that the radical Left, a group which apparently includes you, is using the exact same tactics the actual Nazis used to take power, subjugate, and terrorize vast swaths of Europe, An important difference between then and now, though, is that those of us you’re calling Nazis are well armed and know how to use our weapons. I encourage you to dampen your enthusiasm for electing tyrants-in-waiting AOC, Mamdani, Sanders, et al.
The “National Socialists” were socialists, the dems MUST deny it yet They can’t or won’t even hide their nazi tattoos anymore. It’s how the bad guys get into power and start squashing human dignity to stay there.
And your job in the socialist era will be garbage man?
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.
Have we seen any positive effects of the communism now running NYC?
We won’t. keep watch, nothing yet, just a lot of propaganda.
They’re not even going to try their ‘perfect’ communism policies this time.
They won’t go full commie or they will fail and they know this.
“nothing yet, just a lot of propaganda.”
Damned Nanny has only been in power, what? 6 months, and he already has failed to the point that he feels compelled to blame his failures on capitalism. That is a sign of desperation from him, and to me it is a positive. It means that he will feel the need to implement more and more draconian measures, all of which are guaranteed to fail just as miserably. I saw a report this morning that Google billionaire Sergey Brin is now abandoning the housing rental empire he built in NYC because of the rent freeze and other issues created or exacerbated by Damned Nanny. While tragic for New Yorkers, this is going to be highly entertaining for some of the rest of us…
this so-called NYC communism is just a phase. People still own their own personal property in NYC right now!
I saw a woman with her OWN poodle and she did not intend to eat it!!! this is not communism, not yet at least.
If someone’s a socialist and they can vote for a communist, they will because it’s an advance in that ‘direction’.
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.
Um, that was Frank Zappa, leader of the Mothers of Invention band. In spite of the bizarre image he cultivated, Zappa was pretty astute.
Commies hate this one trick!
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.
Why be snarky?
Upstate, I don’t think there is a unified understanding among supporters of democratic socialism about what they actually believe it will do for them. But what is becoming clear is that, whatever form they imagine, it is ultimately incompatible with the constitutional order our country was designed to preserve. Whether you look at the USSR, Cuba, or European-style socialism, none of them really square with the principles of the Declaration of Independence, private property, self-government, and the rule of law.
The larger issue is that this reckoning is coming for the Democratic Party first. The DSA wing is trying to reshape that party from within, and the Democrats will eventually have to choose whether they embrace that direction and displace their traditional members, or draw a clear line and affirm that, even where they disagree with Republicans, they still stand for constitutional order rather than a socialist remaking of the republic. This is a house-divided moment, and it is one we are going to have to face directly.
add to that, the people in charge of the cruise ship melted down the ship to make hoes and rakes and everyone drown.
Holodomor style
“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.
I am guessing somewhere in the past Estovir must of really owned that annony, not that it would be hard.
I must admit I did have fun. I drove him nucken futs. His whining and crying were delicious while others piled on to his melt downs. He would disappear for a few days, butt hurt, then return with a new sock puppet. Now he can’t forget it hence he mentions my avatar 24/7. On a side note: Estovir is a Latin contraction of 2 words, used often in Catholic circles, and means, wait for it….be a man.
https://estovir.com
thus every time he invokes my name he is propagating a Catholic teaching.
Since 2019 when I started visiting this forum, he has gone by several sock puppet accounts including Peter Hill / Enoch Poor / Dianne / Late4Dinner / CommitToHonestDiscsussion / Dianne / Natasha / Gigi / Svelaz / Concerned Citizen / George / Wally / X / Sally / Staunton Academy / Esquire and many others I can not recall. His 5th grade writing style and making demands of Professor Turley are the give away, all one and the same personality disorder troll. He is entertaining though
Estovir,
Well said and great comment!
Now I know what your name means! That is great! Something the annony will never come to be.
Sorry commie! “America will never be a communist country” -DJT
AND… Trump! is right about everything and HAS made America great again, so nyah!
You’re days of living in mom’s basement are over!
Uh huh, I read Animal Farm. Do young people read any more? They watch Instagram videos of “genocide”.
My son read Animal Farm this past high school semester and we discussed it. He understood the basics of the message, but he still lacks the concern. After all, he’s got a YouTube channel that is far more important. 😒
OLLY, like many parents, I assume you give your child an allowance. Next week, when he comes, tell him you shared his allowance with some other kids.
😉 SM, fortunately he does understand that lesson already.
Creekan,
I am slowly rebuilding my library for the classics like Animal Farm, 1984, Brave New World and many more.
I re-read many of them while in Afghanistan, but I like to have a physical book in hand.
“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.”
That is entirely true. These are vague feelings young people have about fairness, healthcare, education, and the environment. Those sentiments exist on both sides of the aisle. What they forget, or never learned, are the mechanics of the economic systems.
SM, that’s a good point. The socialist message always sounds appealing, because no one would buy the outcome if it were sold honestly.
OLLY, this is where you come in: educating the young.
SM, I agree, education matters a great deal. Its purpose is to help people understand reality, think clearly, and make responsible choices. But education by itself cannot overcome a culture that has already been formed for a different kind of government or economic model. That is true even when the people leading the DSA wing of the Democratic Party are themselves highly educated. So the issue is not simply schooling; it is whether education is joined to the right formation, because a culture shaped toward something else will not be changed by information alone.
Democrats are clearly fascists
Who hate America
Proof? Facts? Witnesses? Any pending charges? Na, didn’t think so.
Oh please. . .enough already.
See Tom Suozzi’s op-ed in the 07-02-26 edition of WSJ (page A15)
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.
Name one
This is the ignorance generally shown by a young person with no experience. You may be that person, or an older person for whom there is no excuse for such behavior.
Insincere communist as always. This is America where you’re FREE to go start a commune and try it for yourself since YOU never have, but I gotta warn you it’s gonna get messy. Don’t be asking to import any ‘capitalist goods’, and maybe you should melt down the tractors into hoes and rakes to keep everybody working and not at each other’s throats.
Let us know how it works out when everyone gets told what to do by somebody ‘better’.
“Its only failings are allowing greed and corruption to overwhelm the true benefit to a free society.”
I think those are more typically failures of government, taking it upon itself to use its power to dole out favors to its benefactors that would never be awarded by a free market. Favors that are, of course, returned by the benefactors.
“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.
It’s humorous, you won’t own anything but Klaus and his buddies will own everything. That’s how Socialism works.
“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.
the cushy jobs are for the people at the top. useful idiots *ahem* get a broom or worse if you don’t like it.
Proof here that these cosplay commies are a bit misinformed what they’re getting themselves into.
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.
youngy can’t speak english? no 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?
I want people to remember this Anonymous comment: ‘The People rule! Death to America. Death to maga.’”
That is the absolute takeaway point from past leftist activities and today’s left, including too many Democrats. They completely erase America’s greatness, a nation that has rescued much of the world from starvation and poverty. This type of feeble-minded individual is an ignoble parasite who cannot survive without feeding on someone else’s blood, sweat, and tears.
S. Meyer,
Well said! Especially your last line.
At last, an honest Democrat!