DSA winning across the US

[MediumKahuna]

In case you didn't know, Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-backed candidates are winning/advancing in primaries across the US and it seems that Mamdani's win in NY was not an anomaly. We are seeing democratic socialists win in Midwestern and Southern states - despite millions spent by AIPAC on smear campaigns. Corporatist/establishment Dems are losing to grassroots, anti-Israel, pro-working-class campaigns.

Personally, I think (and hope) this trend will continue as people abandon politics as usual and grow tired of do-nothing centrist Democrats.

What do you guys think?

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4624938/over-30-socialists-won-primaries-2026-elections/

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/03/politics/democratic-socialists-of-america-convention-dsa-platform-democrats-midterms

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/mamdani-new-york-democratic-socialist

[Raze]

Their biggest weakness is they’re most popular among young voters and least popular among older voters, but most voters are older. 

[aurum]

Probably a backlash from everything Trump-related.

[Oppositionless]

Good. For sure I think several of DSA's positions are stupid, but overall I like them a lot better than the status quo.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Sounds like yall got a lot of options. Go left - goverment power increases. Go right, goverment's power increases

[MediumKahuna]

11 hours ago, Oppositionless said:

Good. For sure I think several of DSA's positions are stupid, but overall I like them a lot better than the status quo.

Same. Some of their ideas are stupid (prison/police abolition for example), but these have zero chance of happening anyway. Plus the actual officials that are being elected only subscribe to a subset of DSA ideas, namely common sense stuff that materially improves peoples' lives - universal healthcare, expanding union rights, rent control/stabilization, climate policy, etc.

[MediumKahuna]

12 hours ago, Raze said:

Their biggest weakness is they’re most popular among young voters and least popular among older voters, but most voters are older. 

Yes, this is one of their biggest challenges.

[NewKidOnTheBlock]

Which "democratic" socialist would be against prisons/police existing? That has to be a complete lie, there is no way any one of them would want to implement that. If any one of them mentioned that as a plausible future policy, then that was a 100% intentional lie. How else would they enforce their ideology lol

[Oppositionless]

4 hours ago, MediumKahuna said:

Same. Some of their ideas are stupid (prison/police abolition for example), but these have zero chance of happening anyway. Plus the actual officials that are being elected only subscribe to a subset of DSA ideas, namely common sense stuff that materially improves peoples' lives - universal healthcare, expanding union rights, rent control/stabilization, climate policy, etc.

even if they have zero chance of happening, the fact that those positions are stated hurts their candidates (even tho the candidates don't care for them), unfortunately.