福克斯新闻民调显示52%的民主党人对社会主义持正面看法，进步派在全国范围内初选中获胜
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《五点》节目主持人在众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人哈基姆·杰弗里斯抨击民主社会主义者（DSA）的议程后，探讨了民主社会主义者对民主党影响力的话题。
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众议院民主党最高领袖明确表示，他不支持美国民主社会主义者（DSA）的议程。
但尽管纽约州众议院民主党领袖、众议员哈基姆·杰弗里斯不支持DSA的极左翼政策提案，最近几周公布的两项全国民调显示，多数民主党人对社会主义持正面看法。
民调显示，大多数美国人，尤其是共和党人，对社会主义持负面看法，情况并非如此。
“我不支持DSA的议程，正如DSA自身所阐明的那样，”杰弗里斯在上周末接受NBC新闻《与媒体见面》节目采访时表示。
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众议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人哈基姆·杰弗里斯表示，他不支持美国民主社会主义者（DSA）的议程。（格雷姆·斯隆/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
杰弗里斯并不是周日脱口秀节目中唯一一位抨击社会主义议程的民主党重量级人物。
肯塔基州州长安迪·贝希尔——2028年民主党总统竞选的潜在候选人——在做客CBS新闻《面向全国》节目时称社会主义是一场“失败的实验”。
资深民主党战略家、政治评论员詹姆斯·卡维尔的措辞则更为尖锐。
“他们是一群愚蠢的人……一群蠢货，”卡维尔在周一做客福克斯新闻《杰西·沃特特斯黄金时段》节目时谈到DSA成员时说道。
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DSA的议程包括削减并废除警察和监狱系统、终止移民海关执法局（ICE）的驱逐和拘留行动、废除边境管制、赋予非公民投票权，以及推行单一支付者的“全民医保”医疗体系。DSA的新纲领还呼吁废除参议院，用由国会选举产生并从属国会的领导层取代总统和最高法院。
得到DSA支持或结盟的候选人，以及其他左翼进步派人士，在今年春夏与更温和的现任议员、党建制派支持的候选人的初选中取得了一系列胜利，包括本月在密歇根州、明尼苏达州和佛罗里达州关键的民主党参议院初选中的高调获胜。
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佛罗里达州州众议员安吉··尼克松是美国民主社会主义者（DSA）成员，她在周二的美国参议院初选中击败了建制派支持的候选人，赢得提名。（乔·雷德莱/盖蒂图片社）
在这些胜利之前，福克斯新闻上月开展的一项全国民调显示，52%的民主党人但仅有11%的共和党人对社会主义持正面看法。根据该民调，民主党人对社会主义的好感度超过了资本主义。本月早些时候开展的CBS新闻民调也得出了类似结果。
民调结果公布之际，美国民众对国家经济的悲观情绪已持续数年，本十年大部分时间里美国人都在与持续的通胀作斗争。
“医疗保险保险公司不负责任的行为，让美国人难以获得负担得起的优质医疗服务，工资涨幅跟不上飙升的通胀，也没有任何计划解决这些问题。选民们正在寻找应对经济负担危机的办法，”资深民主党战略家乔·卡亚佐告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
卡亚佐曾助力进步派领袖、参议员伯尼·桑德斯参加2016年和2020年总统竞选，他强调“进步派在全国各地初选中获胜，是因为选民们迫切希望有领导人能够解决席卷全国的经济负担危机”。
桑德斯在2016年民主党总统提名竞选中与前国务卿希拉里·克林顿展开的漫长拉锯战，对民主党产生了深远影响。
“自2016年伯尼·桑德斯竞选以来，许多民主党人，尤其是年轻人，不再认为社会主义是可怕的，甚至不介意在美国政策制定中看到更多社会主义元素，”政治学家克里斯·加尔迪耶里告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
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共和党人的情况则截然不同。
“对共和党人来说，‘社会主义’近百年来一直是个恶魔，被用来批评从新政到奥巴马医改的一切事物，”圣安塞尔姆学院政治学教授加尔迪耶里说道。“共和党人理所当然地认为社会主义是件坏事，民调结果也反映了这一点。”
盖洛普去年年底开展的民调也凸显出，与资本主义或自由企业相比，“社会主义在美国民众心目中的好感度要低得多”。
“共和党人比民主党人或无党派人士更有可能说社会主义没有任何好处，”盖洛普的一份报告指出。报告还指出，大多数民主党人“称赞社会主义，认为它能提供基本服务、加强社会安全网，或促进更大的经济平等”。
新英格兰学院院长韦恩·莱斯佩兰斯是一位资深政治学家，他指出了社会主义思潮持续抬头的另一个原因。
“大多数美国人并不了解社会主义在理论或实践中的真正含义，”莱斯佩兰斯认为。“我敢打赌，支持自称社会主义者的民主党候选人的选票，更多与候选人年轻、新鲜有关，而非与多年来主导选举的建制派候选人一样。”
“这才是这里更重要的故事——参与民主党初选的选民想要新的选择，他们甚至会投票给自称社会主义者的候选人，以推动他们想要的变革，”莱斯佩兰斯告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
无论背后的因素是什么，共和党人都将民主党初选的左倾倾向视为武器，试图在即将到来的中期选举中保住他们的国会多数席位，尽管他们面临着艰难的政治环境。
“我完全相信，我们将打破历史趋势，为共和党保住并扩大众议院多数席位，”众议院议长迈克·约翰逊周一在接受福克斯新闻数字频道独家竞选采访时表示。
谈到共和党人，约翰逊说：“我非常感激我们的候选人拥有常识。这实际上是一场常识候选人……与疯狂之举的对比选举，而另一方代表的就是后者。”
唐纳德·特朗普总统曾多次将民主党人称为“共产党人”。本周，在谈到社会主义政客时，特朗普指责道：“他们正在消灭中产阶级。最后将没有人再交税。而如果没人交税，你知道会发生什么。肮脏、肮脏、污秽。”
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但民主党人对共和党的攻击不予理会。
“这是共和党人试图用标签来构建辩论框架，而非聚焦唐纳德·特朗普和‘让美国再次伟大’共和党人的失败政策，”卡亚佐说道。
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Socialism surges among Democrats as party leaders reject DSA agenda: ‘Pack of fools’
Fox News poll shows 52% of Democrats hold positive views of socialism while progressives win primaries across the country
August 21, 2026 9:16am EDT / Fox News
By Paul Steinhauser
‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss the influence of Democratic socialists on the Democratic Party after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., called out the DSA agenda.
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The top Democrat in the House is making it clear that he doesn’t support the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) agenda.
But even though House Democratic Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York doesn’t back the DSA’s far-left policy proposals, a majority of Democrats hold favorable views of socialism, according to two national polls released in recent weeks.
That’s not the case for most Americans, and especially Republicans, who hold negative views of socialism, according to the surveys.
“I don’t support the DSA agenda, as has been articulated by the DSA itself,” Jeffries said during an interview this past weekend on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, says he does not back the agenda of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).(Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Jeffries wasn’t the only major Democrat taking aim at the socialist agenda on the Sunday talk shows.
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, called socialism a “failed experiment” during an appearance on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
Longtime Democratic strategist and pundit James Carville was less diplomatic.
“They’re a bunch of silly people… a pack of fools,” Carville said as he referred to DSA members, during a Monday appearance on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime.
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The DSA’s agenda includes defunding and abolishing police and prison systems, ending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deportations and detentions, abolishing borders, granting voting rights to noncitizens and implementing a single-payer “Medicare for All” health system. The DSA’s new platform also calls for abolishing the Senate, and replacing the presidency and Supreme Court with leadership chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Candidates backed by or aligned with the DSA, as well as other left-wing progressives, have won a series of victories over more moderate incumbents and candidates supported by the party establishment in primary showdowns this spring and summer, including high-profile wins this month in crucial Democratic Senate primaries in Michigan, Minnesota and Florida.
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Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) member, won Tuesday’s U.S. Senate primary by defeating an establishment-backed candidate.(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Ahead of those victories, a Fox News national poll conducted last month indicated 52% of Democrats but just 11% of Republicans held positive views of socialism. According to the poll, Democrats had more favorable opinions of socialism that capitalism. A CBS News survey in the field earlier this month had similar findings.
The poll results come in the wake of years of pessimistic views of the nation’s economy, as Americans have struggled with persistent inflation for most of this decade.
“Health insurers have acted irresponsibly making access to affordable and quality care beyond challenging for Americans, wages aren’t keeping up with soaring inflation and there is no plan to reconcile any of these issues. Voters are looking for a solution to the affordability crisis,” longtime Democratic strategist Joe Caiazzo told Fox News Digital.
Caiazzo, a veteran of progressive champion Sen. Bernie Sanders’ 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns, emphasized that “progressives are winning primaries around the country because the electorate is desperate for leaders that will address the affordability crisis that has swept the country.”
Sanders’ marathon battle with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination has had a lasting impact on the party.
“Since 2016 and the Bernie Sanders campaign, there are lots of Democrats, particularly younger ones, who don’t think socialism is scary and wouldn’t mind seeing more of it in U.S. policy-making,” political scientist Chris Galdieri told Fox News Digital.
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It’s a different story for Republicans.
“For Republicans, ‘socialism’ has been a boogeyman for almost a hundred years, and it was used as a criticism of everything from the New Deal to Obamacare,” Galdieri, a politics professor at Saint Anselm College, said. “Republicans take it as a matter of fact that socialism is a bad thing and polls reflect that.”
Polling from Gallup conducted late last year also highlighted that “socialism starts from a much less favorable position in Americans’ minds” compared to capitalism or free enterprise.
“Republicans are far more likely than Democrats or independents to say there is nothing good about socialism,” a release from Gallup noted. It also pointed out that a majority of Democrats “praise socialism either for providing access to basic services and strengthening the social safety net or for promoting greater economic equality.”
New England College President Wayne Lesperance, a veteran political scientist, points to a different reason for the ongoing socialist surge.
“Most Americans do not know what socialism means in theory or in practice,” Lesperance argued. “I’d wager that the votes for democratic candidates identifying as socialists has much more to do with being young and new, and not the same as establishment candidates that have dominated elections for years.”
“That is the bigger story here — voters participating in democratic primaries want new options, and they will even vote for self-described socialists to force the change they want to see,” Lesperance told Fox News Digital.
Regardless of the contributing factors, Republicans see the leftward lurch in the Democratic primaries as ammunition they can use to try and save their congressional majorities in the upcoming midterm elections as they face a rough political climate.
“I’m absolutely convinced we’re going to defy the historic trend and keep and grow the House majority for Republicans,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said Monday in an exclusive campaign trail interview with Fox News Digital.
Referring to Republicans, Johnson said, “I’m so grateful we have common sense on the ballot. This really is a contrast election between commonsense candidates… and crazy, and that’s what the other side represents.”
President Donald Trump has repeatedly referred to Democrats as “communists.” And this week, referring to socialist politicians, the president charged, “They’re driving out the middle class. You’re not going to have anybody left to pay any taxes. And if you don’t pay taxes, you know what happens. Squalor, squalor, filth.”
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But Democrats discount the GOP attacks.
“It’s an attempt by Republicans to try to frame the debate around labels rather than the failed policies of Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans,” Caiazzo argued.
Paul Steinhauser covers the national campaign trail from coast to coast for Fox News
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