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JONATHAN TURLEY: Socialism is back in style and Democrats are buying the pitch

The Democratic Socialists of America promise a world without landlords or debt as Democrats increasingly embrace collectivism

By Jonathan Turley Fox News

Published September 30, 2026 7:00am EDT

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Karl Marx believed that "Democracy is the road to socialism." Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left.

Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems.

A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the "warmth of collectivism." The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like "Imagine the end of capitalism." Those words promise voters that there is a brave new world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours and "food, education, energy, medicine and transportation… are common goods and utilities."

MORE AMERICANS THAN EVER NOW HAVE A POSITIVE VIEW OF........

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