Source: Jonathan Turley Blog
by Jonathan Turley
“Karl Marx believed that ‘Democracy is the road to socialism’. Socialists seem to have found a generation of dupes to buy their ahistorical, fanciful pitch. A new poll shows 43% now have a positive view of socialism. An astonishing 65% of Democrats have a positive view. Socialism is now the rage on the left. Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures. However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems. A new slick packaging of socialism has emerged with leaders such as Zohran Mamdani offering to teach people of the ‘warmth of collectivism’. The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like ‘Imagine the end of capitalism’.” (09/25/26)