The Democrat Party has a socialism problem, and it's getting worse by the week. No matter what the establishment claims, the Democratic Socialists of America aren't a fringe protest movement anymore. They're winning elections, and Democrat leadership would rather cheer them on than cut them loose.
The problem for the Democrats, of course, is that the DSA-backed candidates aren’t just winning in deep blue enclaves. They have been racking up wins from coast to coast, and every victory gives Republicans ammunition for the midterms, which is why I think Republicans will outperform the polls. But the problem for Democrats is that this socialist crap isn't a passing trend. It's an insurgency, and it's building momentum with every election cycle that passes.
And Democrats know it.
That's why Kamala Harris' decision to appear with Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed at a roundtable is such a telling signal. Kamala isn't sitting down with a DSA-aligned candidate by accident. From where I sit, it’s clear she’s positioning herself for a 2028 primary she knows will be shaped by the same socialist energy that keeps winning races right now, and she’s betting that’s what will propel her to victory.
Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany laid out just how far this has gone during a discussion on The Five, and the reason why Democrats aren’t nipping this problem in the bud.
"These DSA-ers are winning all across the country, and they're making a huge insurgency that is not going away," McEnany said. "It is going to get stronger." She ticked off a growing list: El-Sayed in Michigan, Angie Nixon in Florida, and Melat Kiros in Colorado, all Democratic socialists building real power in their states.
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McEnany also flagged a comment from her co-host, former Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, that most of his own party wouldn't dare repeat. Ford told the panel he denounced socialism, and McEnany challenged Democrats to do the same. "I'm pretty sure the only ones who would make that statement in this current political space are Henry Cuellar, John Fetterman, maybe you get a few others here and there, but it's about it."
She’s right, and McEnany didn't dance around why. "Because they know socialism is here to stay," she said. Gallup's own polling backs her up. Support for socialism among Democrats has climbed for years, and party leadership knows chasing those voters away would cost them races they can't afford to lose. Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who let her DSA membership lapse rather than be tied too closely to the label, renewed it this year the moment she started eyeing a bigger role in 2028. The only prominent Democrat left willing to call the DSA out by name, according to McEnany, is Rahm Emanuel, and even he treats it as a maybe.
“They know socialism is HERE TO STAY.” @kayleighmcenany says Democrats must reckon with the growing influence of democratic socialists, while Republicans need to make a stronger case on affordability.
— The Five (@TheFive) September 21, 2026
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This is a Democrat problem, but Republicans can't afford to sit back and watch it play out, either. McEnany made clear the GOP's job isn't to gloat over the other side's socialist infighting. It's to keep hammering the affordability message the way Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has with his own economic plan, and to make sure voters see exactly what's happening inside the Democrat Party while it's happening. The Trump administration has real wins to point to, but the job isn't finished. Republicans need to keep calling socialism out by name every time, so it never gets a foothold in mainstream politics that the DSA is quietly building right now, one primary at a time.
