The Socialist Wave Isn’t About Trump—It’s the Democrat Party’s Reality

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The Socialist Wave Isn’t About Trump—It’s the Democrat Party’s Reality

Jarrett Stepman
•   July 5, 2026

This year has seen socialists make their furthest inroads into “mainstream” American politics than any time since the early 20th century.

Even though this is clearly a phenomenon manifesting itself within the Democrat Party, more than a few media commentators have incorrectly attempted to tie this socialist red wave to President Donald Trump.

A recent editorial in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Trump Opened the Window for the DSA,” argued essentially that Trump is just so mean and awful, he’s caused so much derangement on the Left, that they decided to embrace communism to stop him.

“Both his genuine sins and his imagined ones handed the left permission to come unglued, pushing otherwise serious but mainstream left-leaning ideologues to adopt positions they would have laughed at a decade ago,” the authors argued. “The radical, dangerous and merely stupid are not only permissible but mandatory.”

Undergirding this argument is the absurd premise that to stop Democrats from becoming bloodthirsty communists we just have to be nicer to them—unlike that meanie Trump—and maybe give them what they want.

But this argument is bunk for several reasons, a significant one being the words of the insurgents who’ve been quite clear that their movement is only tangentially about the president.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

Trump has little to do with DSA.

The DSA has more to do with the Dem Party Establishment's Trump Derangement Syndrome and their tone-deafness to their younger constituents.

While Dem limousine liberal elites summer in the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, their younger constituents are overwhelmed by the higher costs of living caused by bad Dem policies.

Notice, the DSA is not attacking Republicans nor conservatives, yet; they are challenging the Dem establishment in Dem-dominated New York City and other Dem-dominated urban areas.

The DSA is an intra-party political insurgency against the Dem Party Establishment elites.

[Cyber Liberty]

Trump has little to do with DSA.

The DSA has more to do with the Dem Party Establishment's Trump Dreangement Syndrome and their tone-deafness to their younger constituents.

While Dem limousine liberal elites summer in the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket, their younger constituents are overwhelmed by the higher costs of living caused by bad Dem policies.

Notice, the DSA is not attacking Republicans nor conservatives, yet; they are challenging the Dem establishment in Dem-dominated New York City and other Dem-dominated urban areas.

The DSA is an intra-party political insurgency against the Dem Party Establishment elites.

As Republicans there's nothing we can do about it, other than pointing out these are the Democrats of 2026, and campaign on how different we are from them.  Woe be to the Republicans who campaign on being Democrat-lite RINOs.

[Free Vulcan]

Basically the DSA are the ones who say the quiet part out loud. Well not say but shout. There's no real change, the mask is just off now and theirs no smokescreening followed by the bait-and-switch.

This will only help the GOP. Not just in Republican turnout, but scaring Indies and soft Rats to our side of the pool.

In some ways I like the DSA because they are finally showing us the Rat true colors.