By Issues & Insights Editorial Board | August 18, 2026
A shocking poll has found that voters are more likely to support a Democratic Socialist of America candidate over one who is supported by President Donald Trump or identifies with the Make America Great Again movement. Anyone who doesn’t tremble for their country after learning this is part of the problem.
The CNBC poll taken a little more than a month ago shows that 32% of U.S. voters are more likely to support a self-described DSA candidate while only 29% are more likely to back a candidate endorsed by Trump. The figure falls to 27% for the self-described supporters of the MAGA movement.
Granted, the numbers are not that far apart. But the fact that more than even 10% of voters would cast their ballots for the depraved Democratic Socialists, who celebrated the 100th birthday of Fidel Castro, the jailer, torturer, and murderer of thousands, and demand the U.S. pay Cuba reparations, is discouraging. The danger is no longer on the fringe but in the room with us right now.
The media and the Democratic Party sure have done their job, and they’ve done it well, working hard for more than a decade to make sure large chunks of the population believe that Trump, his supporters, and those who vote for him because the alternatives have been wretched are Nazis, Fascists, racists, and deplorables.
The same media, with the help of the Democratic Party, have promoted, celebrated, and nurtured the socialists, some of whom are in fact communists, that have infested our politics. What we learn every time a Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed, or Darializa Avila Chevalier is gushed over by the media, the useful idiots of Generation Z and any previously standard Democratic politician just how willfully ignorant, deranged, and dangerous those leftist politicians are.
To vote for a Democratic Socialist is to vote for:
- Government ownership of the largest corporations and key industries
- Amnesty for illegal immigrants
- Defunding the U.S. military
- Abolishing jails and prisons
- Eliminating the presidency, Senate, and Supreme Court
- Decriminalizing shoplifting because it’s “biological need“
We believe neither Trump nor the MAGA movement are perfect. Perfection is not possible when humans are involved. But they offer far better than the Marxist chunder that’s gacked up by the malcontented spawn of the Democratic Party.
While the DSA figures might seem to be clowns — and they are certainly liars, pretending to represent the working class when they are in fact the spoiled and unaccomplished children of privilege — they are gathering clout. Wake up, Americans. Let’s not vote our way into socialism only to learn that the only option for escaping its noose is to shoot our way out.
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