Something significant is happening inside the Democratic Party, and Americans who cherish liberty should pay attention. A CNN/SSRS poll conducted July 23-27 found about one-third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning adults now identify as democratic socialists. CNN reported 66 percent say they are extremely motivated to vote this year, compared with 57 percent of other Democratic-aligned voters. Democratic socialist candidates have defeated established Democrats in congressional primaries. Another recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found 71 percent of Democrats identifying as liberal. Taken together, the numbers indicate socialism is gaining legitimacy, organization and electoral power in the Democratic Party.
Running alongside that socialist movement is another disturbing trend: growing hostility toward Israel. CNN’s polling found 48 percent said they would be enthusiastic about such a candidate that stands against Israel, compared with 20 percent of other Democratic-aligned voters. CNN separately reported that the newly created American Priorities super PAC spent at least $5.6 million supporting Democratic candidates fiercely critical of Israel and AIPAC, helping democratic socialists win congressional primaries. Several successful socialist-aligned candidates share strong criticism of Israel and support ending American military aid.
History teaches that political hostility toward Israel and the Jewish people can become something far darker when ideological movements begin identifying them as obstacles to their political objectives.
Fascism and communism wear different ideological labels, but when imposed as systems of government, they can travel remarkably similar totalitarian roads. Both concentrate enormous power in the state, subordinate individual liberty to political objectives, suppress dissent and place government authority above institutions that might challenge it.
Nazi Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union demonstrated how deadly that concentration of power could become, particularly for Jews, Christians and others the state identified as obstacles or enemies. Hitler’s regime murdered six million Jews. Under Stalin, Jewish institutions and religious practice faced persecution, churches were closed or confiscated, believers and clergy were imprisoned, and atheism was promoted by the state. That is where these trends converge into a warning for America.
A growing socialist political movement increasingly hostile toward Israel, coupled with an ideology demanding greater government control over economic and social life, and the abolishing of religion, presents a clear and present danger to all true Americans. Socialism and communism historically replace private initiative and God-given rights with government authority. Concentrated government power has repeatedly brought repression, poverty, persecution and death in its wake.
Americans still possess powerful defenses against that road: our voices, our ballots, our constitutional rights and our faith. Failing to use those voices and ballots while history waves warning flags before us is, say it with me, Stupidocrisy.
Ephesians 6:13 says, “and having done all, to stand.” We must stand.
Sources
CNN, “A third of Democrats now identify as democratic socialists”
CNN/SSRS July 2026 Poll, full questionnaire and results
CNN, “How a new super PAC formed to counter AIPAC is fueling democratic socialists’ wins”
Breitbart, “One-Third of Democrats Identify as Democrat Socialists”
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Introduction to the Holocaust
Library of Congress, Soviet Archives: Anti-Religious Campaigns