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More than a quarter of U.S. voters, including the majority of Democrats, identify as supporters of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), new polling finds as left-wing ideology surges in popularity despite the Trump administration’s attempts to quash it.

Quinnipiac University finds that 26 percent of registered voters say they consider themselves supporters of DSA, the largest socialist group in the U.S. This includes 59 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of independents. Only 30 percent of Democrats say they do not consider themselves as such.

The polling further found that the MAGA ideology has more negative sentiment attached to it than democratic socialism. More than half — 51 percent — of voters said that they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who backs MAGA, while 43 percent said the same about a democratic socialist.

Meanwhile, 39 percent of Democrats said they’d be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports democratic socialism, while only 11 percent said they’d be less likely and 43 percent said it made no difference.

This is the latest survey to find that democratic socialism, once considered fringe, is on the rise among the public. CNN found in polling in July that a third of........

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