The Democratic Party is being hijacked by socialist ideologies, and the people it claims to fight hardest for are the first ones bailing out. The Democratic Socialists of America have gone from a fringe debate club to a governing faction inside the party in the span of a single election cycle.

Loss of Support from Black and Brown Voters

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, lost to Andrew Cuomo among Black voters by nearly six points citywide in the June primary. This is not a story of Black and brown voters embracing democratic socialism from the start, but rather a story of a Democratic Socialist having to run away from his own movement’s brand to survive a primary.

The pattern held again in New York’s 13th Congressional District, where DSA member Darializa Avila Chevalier unseated five-term incumbent Rep. Adriano Espaillat. However, the coalition that put her over the top looked nothing like the district’s base, with Chevalier holding just a 5.1-point advantage in higher-income areas and Espaillat winning lower-income areas by 9.1 points.

Rejection of Socialist Ideologies

The DSA’s own 2021 internal membership survey found the organization is 85% White and only 4% Black, with a median age of 33. More than 80% of members hold a college degree, and better than a third hold a graduate or professional degree, more than double the national rate, with nearly a third clearing six-figure incomes. This is not a working-class movement, but an upper-middle-class ideological project wearing working-class language as a costume, and Black and brown voters are not fooled by the costume.

Democratic leadership is too terrified of its own base to say so out loud, but the coalition they need to win national elections is not buying what the DSA is selling. The DSA’s defenders will tell you this is just Scandinavian-style social democracy with better branding, but the platform documents say otherwise. So do the voters, and now the Black homeowners and political leaders, who keep pushing back against it.

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