Will Socialism Sweep the Midterms?

[mystery-ak]

December 18, 2025
Will Socialism Sweep the Midterms?
By Michael G. Zey

In recent years, the Democrat party has steadily shifted left, embracing ideas once considered fringe, including open borders, transgenderism, and the Green New Deal.

In abandoning the political center to Trump and his MAGA base, Democrats effectively cost themselves the House in 2022 — and the presidency and Senate in 2024.

With the 2026 midterms and 2028 presidential race approaching, analysts expected a centrist correction.  Instead, Democrats have doubled down, integrating a Marxist-oriented doctrine labeled “democratic socialism” into their public identity.

To traditional observers, this defies political logic.  Historically, parties seeking national victory have moderated to appeal to the center, the so-called “broad middle.”

After three straight landslide presidential losses in the 1980s, Democrats did exactly that.  Sensing that voters perceived Democrats as big-government liberals detached from middle America, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), an organization composed of moderates like Al Gore and Al From, pushed the party to reject high spending and divisive culture wars in favor of pragmatic centrism aimed at middle-class and swing voters.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/12/will_socialism_sweep_the_midterms.html

[Free Vulcan]

So far the socialists are winning in heavy urban areas in off-year elections with low turnout. Not exactly a provable trend.

Alot of this is going to fall to the rest of the GOP and not Trump to find an argument to convince the people to vote for them, plus get off their duffs on things like redistricting.

[LMAO]

No.

Because the Democrats won’t run Socialist Democrats like AOC in swing districts

The trend of Democrats sweeping this year has not been by running  unapologetic AOC’s everywhere, but with more moderate pragmatic democrats that have attracted a wider net of voters


The two gubernatorial candidates, Spanberger and Sherrill, while highly critical of President Trump, campaigned as pragmatic moderates with records of working across party lines. In contrast, Zohran Mamdani ran for Mayor of New York as a Democratic Socialist, proposing drastic reforms aimed at expanding city services while raising taxes on the wealthy and large corporations.

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/the-2025-elections-and-future-of-the-democratic-party-why-spanberger-and-sherrill-provide-a-more-plausible-model-for-success-than-mamdani/#:~:text=—%20Democratic%20victories%20in%20three%20major,Democrats%20in%20future%20competitive%20races.

An AOC Democrat wouldn’t pull in swing voters like the two governors did

And Party leaders know this. And if you look at the chart in that link I posted, Mamdani has a smaller coalition than Spanberger and Sherrill did

In that Tenn race, there’s no guarantee that the GOP would have held that seat if the democrats ran someone more moderate without the past statements and actions by Behn


So..no. Based on the Democrats winning streak this year with the type of Democrats the party has been running

[LMAO]

So the hope and chance that the GOP has that Mamdani’s will be nominated throughout the country next year is debunked by the trends this year

[bigheadfred]

Kinda hard to predict how the midterms will go at this time @LMAO

There is this

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2001690690527330424

But like @Smokin Joe has said. Stupid  people vote.

[Cyber Liberty]

So the hope and chance that the GOP has that Mamdani’s will be nominated throughout the country next year is debunked by the trends this year

I think that's an accurate assessment.  It's not going to be a cakewalk for either side.  With no Trump on the ballot, the GOP had better sharpen up their game.  2025 has been lousy for Congressional Republicans and they deserve every slap they get.  The Democrats are not going to help the GOP by nominating laughingstock candidates like Harris and Walz in 2026.

[Cyber Liberty]

Kinda hard to predict how the midterms will go at this time @LMAO

There is this

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2001690690527330424

But like @Smokin Joe has said. Stupid  people vote.

Generic polls are notorious for being poor predictors of actual performance.

[LMAO]

Kinda hard to predict how the midterms will go at this time @LMAO

There is this

https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2001690690527330424

But like @Smokin Joe has said. Stupid  people vote.

The House is gone. The GOP knows this

We’ll see how the Senate  goes. Even with the GOP red wave in the 2010 midterm and the Democrats Blue wave in 2018, the Senate fell short for both parties in those years. The GOP didn’t take the Senate until 2014

The Democratic Party’s low polling has been there for a while but individual Democrats have been doing better this year despite that

[LMAO]

  The Democrats are not going to help the GOP by nominating laughingstock candidates like Harris and Walz in 2026.

lol

No they will not. They will chose candidates more carefully this time.

And watching Walz response to this scandal in Minnesota is further confirmation what a joke and idiot he is

[LMAO]

However, we’ll see what they nominate in 2028

But they won’t nominate far left wing candidates across the fruited plain next year

[Smokin Joe]

However, we’ll see what they nominate in 2028

But they won’t nominate far left wing candidates across the fruited plain next year

It isn't that they won't nominate them, but they will package them as moderates for the LIVs.

Without cracking the shell of lies, the voters won't see what's inside until it's too late.

[libertybele]

Generic polls are notorious for being poor predictors of actual performance.

Amen!

[LMAO]

It isn't that they won't nominate them, but they will package them as moderates for the LIVs.

They’ll nominate typical Democrats with typical Democrat positions

But they know better than to nominate far leftists.Even with voters dissatisfaction with the direction of the country under Trump, if you look at the trend of Democrats winning this year outside of very blue areas, theyre not running on the platform of Mandam

They’re not going to flip swing districts with a Mamdani platform. Behn proved that in Tenn District 7 when her pasts statements like defunding the police and a  post in 2020 which suggested she supported burning down police stations was justified came to light

[Cyber Liberty]

The House is gone. The GOP knows this

We'll see.  Maybe, maybe not.   

[DefiantMassRINO]

Possible in areas dominated by bad limousine liberal policies that increase the cost of living.  Many of those areas do not have competitive Republican parties.

[MeganC]

I predict that the Dems will get 100% of the votes from dead people. 

[Fishrrman]

LMAO asserts:
if you look at the chart in that link I posted, mamdani has a smaller coalition than Spanberger and Sherrill did"

Nope.
zombie-mammi won with an absolute majority in a 3-way-race.

I reckon that if he runs again, he's likely to win with 70% (or more) of the vote. Maybe 80%. All he's gonna need is that "d" next to his name in the voting booth.

"Spanberger and Sherrill, while highly critical of President Trump, campaigned as pragmatic moderates with records of working across party lines"

They WEREN'T moderates. They are dem-communists.

spanberger won in Virginia because it's a blue state now, with the northern part of the state overwhelming the southern and southwestern areas, the same way that that New York City (and surrounding metro area) overwhelms the rest of the state. And also because Winsome-Sears just wasn't electable.

sherrill won in New Jersey because... well... it's New Jersey, a blue state that will probably get bluer with the departure of traditional-minded folks for other places (same problem that NY state has). I doubt we'll see a Republican governor win there again.

[LMAO]

LMAO asserts:
if you look at the chart in that link I posted, mamdani has a smaller coalition than Spanberger and Sherrill did"

Nope.
zombie-mammi won with an absolute majority in a 3-way-race.

I reckon that if he runs again, he's likely to win with 70% (or more) of the vote. Maybe 80%. All he's gonna need is that "d" next to his name in the voting booth.

"Spanberger and Sherrill, while highly critical of President Trump, campaigned as pragmatic moderates with records of working across party lines"

They WEREN'T moderates. They are dem-communists.

spanberger won in Virginia because it's a blue state now, with the northern part of the state overwhelming the southern and southwestern areas, the same way that that New York City (and surrounding metro area) overwhelms the rest of the state. And also because Winsome-Sears just wasn't electable.

sherrill won in New Jersey because... well... it's New Jersey, a blue state that will probably get bluer with the departure of traditional-minded folks for other places (same problem that NY state has). I doubt we'll see a Republican governor win there again.

https://centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/AIA2025111201-table1.png


Mamdani won, but he did worse amongst moderate voters than Spanberger and Sherrill

NYC’s electorate is not representative of the nation at large. And both Spanberger and Sherrill did not win with just Democrat/liberal voters. They won with working class voters, young voters and non white voters, and independents and moderate voters


There has been a dramatic  shift to the Democrats this year of voters outside the GOP base. Even in  red districts, they’ve either did better than Harris or have won


The results of the 2025 elections put to rest the question of whether rightward shifts among voters of color and young voters in 2024 were signs of a permanent political realignment. They were not.


https://movement.vote/blog/2025-12-10-following-the-voter-data-how-the-2025-elections-reversed-2024-voter-shifts-and-show-our-path-to-power/

[DB]

The midterms are nearly a year away. A LOT can happen in the intervening time. I'm not going to get too worked up over polls right now.

[LMAO]

More:

Part 2: 2025 Election Analysis

Trump 2024 Voters Swung Back to Democrats

On November 4, 2025, our conclusions from the 2024 election data were confirmed: Many voters who had swung to Trump in 2024 swung back to Democrats.

Democrats dramatically exceeded their 2024 performance across the country, but the most striking result was that voters of color and young voters in particular swung toward Democrats in massive numbers.

https://movement.vote/blog/2025-12-10-following-the-voter-data-how-the-2025-elections-reversed-2024-voter-shifts-and-show-our-path-to-power/

[Free Vulcan]

There has been a dramatic  shift to the Democrats this year of voters outside the GOP base. Even in  red districts, they’ve either did better than Harris or have won

The 'shift' has occurred at a fraction of the turnout of a general election and does not demonstrate any shift in sentiment.

Of course you know this, and you conveniently leave that out because it blows your whole theory that you use as a soapbox to dishonestly bash Trump.