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2026-11-14 Home Front: Politix
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Socialist States of America: Democrats Lead Washington to Revolution
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
by Malek Dudakov
[Regnum] The recent US elections resulted in a resounding victory for the Democrats. However, difficult times lie ahead—they must somehow resolve the serious intra-party rift that is brewing between the centrists and the rising left.
The congressional elections can be called a real triumph for American socialists, as hundreds of candidates they supported were able to achieve success.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) movement has been around in the United States for several decades. It emerged in the 1970s as a coalition of civil rights activists and trade unionists.
The DSA advocated détente with the Soviet Union and opposed the hawks in the Ronald Reagan administration when he came to power after winning the November 1980 election.
Democratic socialists were quite active in the 1980s, but then the movement experienced a long and painful decline against the backdrop of the collapse of the USSR and the collapse of leftist ideas around the world.
Democrats in the United States embraced globalism and neoliberalism, epitomized by Bill Clinton's policies. Socialists, meanwhile, became marginal anti-globalists for a long time, holding protests at World Trade Organization forums—and nothing more.
Moreover, the left's traditional electoral base—union workers—began to erode after the relocation of many manufacturing industries to Latin America and Asia. Subsequently, blue-collar workers shifted their party affiliation and began supporting Republicans, including helping Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election.
Interestingly, it was that year that the Democratic Socialists began to experience a resurgence. They were greatly aided by the presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, the left-wing senator from Vermont, who gave Hillary Clinton a tough fight in the presidential primaries.
Already in 2018, the socialists managed to elect their first representatives to Congress and strengthen their position at the local level in Democratic states.
But the real breakthrough for the American left occurred during Trump's second term. First, they achieved a landmark victory in the 2025 New York City mayoral election, electing Zohran Mamdani. He never tires of pointing out that he is an immigrant, a Muslim, and a socialist. In short, he embodies everything MAGA America dislikes.
Following the recent elections, Democratic Socialist candidates have already become mayors of four major American cities.
Los Angeles joined New York City, where Indian candidate Nithya Raman, emulating Mamdani's style, won. In the District of Columbia, home to the US capital, Black Lives Matter activist and socialist Janice Lewis George became mayor. Leftists also won in Seattle.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which numbered in the thousands just 10 years ago, now has 130,000 members. They have representation on city councils in many major US cities.
For the first time, a DSA candidate was also elected as a senator at the federal level: Egyptian and socialist Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.
Like Mamdani, he was able to win largely due to the sharp rise in anti-Israel sentiment in American society. Socialists advocate a military embargo and sanctions against Israel.
For the first time in modern history, the majority of Americans have developed a negative perception of the Jewish state's policies. The left's anti-war agenda has given them political leverage in the recent elections.
In the lower house of Congress, the Progressive Socialist Caucus comprises several dozen members. While this may not seem like a large number, their votes can be decisive in blocking initiatives from other Democrats.
The left will develop a kind of "golden share" when making any decision. And they will use their new position to try to break the established status quo.
Back in the summer, the DSA movement presented a plan for a large-scale left-wing restructuring of America. They propose completely abolishing the Senate, which they call undemocratic. They claim each state should be represented by two senators, regardless of its population—700,000, like Alaska, or 40 million, like California.
It also proposes abolishing ICE, closing most prisons to reduce the inmate population (currently 2 million), introducing direct presidential elections, cutting Pentagon budgets in half, and placing large corporations under direct government control, effectively nationalizing them.
Such a program is clearly too radical even for most Democratic voters, let alone American society as a whole. Therefore, socialists are emphasizing certain populist proposals that are quite popular with society.
Specifically, the creation of a "Medicare for All" system—that is, a unified state health insurance program along European lines. Admittedly, it will cost many trillions of dollars.
Moreover, now the socialists are calling on the other Democrats not only to fight Trump, but also to try to implement some reforms, just so as not to waste time.
The current administration, which promised the advent of an "American golden age" in early 2025, is a typical example here. Ultimately, it has failed to implement virtually any of the initiatives it promised a year and a half ago.
Centrist Democrats believe they can spend the next two years in the comfortable position of "fighting Trumpism," launching investigations and impeachments. And, overall, not changing anything about the current situation in Washington.
The left, however, wants to immediately embark on large-scale reforms while the Democratic Party maintains a significant majority in both houses of Congress. The last time Democrats controlled so many seats—260 in the House and 56 in the Senate—was in the early 1990s.
Newly elected socialist Senator Abdul El-Sayed is even proposing to call government health insurance "Trumpcare for all" in order to play on the US president's ego and convince him to accept leftist demands.
However, the split within the Democratic camp is unlikely to allow them to seriously implement their initiatives. Although they will indeed try to do some obvious things—ending Trump's trade wars and the Iran adventure.
This means that the growth of far-left sentiments in the Democratic camp will certainly continue.
In the next elections (they will be held in 2028), the socialists plan to win Senate races in two states at once: New York, where they will try to unseat the Democratic leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, and Pennsylvania, where pro-Israel Democrat John Fetterman will be re-elected.
Schumer faces a potential challenge from young Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, arguably America's most popular left-wing activist. Fetterman faces Gaza-born writer Ahmed Moore, a vocal critic of Israel. Congress will therefore continue to rapidly shift leftward in the next election cycle.
The rapid spread of leftist sentiments among young Americans—millennials and Zoomers—is also playing into socialists' hands. Recent surveys show that nearly half of all undergraduate students in the US view the socialist agenda favorably as opposed to the capitalist model.
Moreover, it previously seemed that Zoomers would be more right-leaning than previous generations. Many of them supported Trump in the 2024 election. But the highly unpopular Iran War and the fuel crisis forced them to shift sharply to the left.
The main question that remains open is whether the Socialists will be able to significantly influence the outcome of the 2028 presidential race. They will certainly try to push their candidate to at least the vice-presidential level.
One thing is clear: the split within the Democratic ranks will continue to deepen. And this is perhaps the Republicans' only hope of somehow regaining the ground they lost in the recent elections.
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