What is democratic socialism?

And who are the Democrat socialists of America?

Welcome to a brand new episode of the Michelle Tafoya podcast.

I'm going to try to do a deep dive for you on this so you don't have to.

I've been doing some research and I've been finding some sound and I think this is something we need to be concerned about.

You know, I remember Trump in his first administration gave a state of the union address where he said America will never

become a socialist nation. And even Democrats stood up and applauded. But here we are in 2025,

and Zohran Mandami and AOC and Bernie Sanders and Rashida Taleb all seem to be

Democrats, Socialists. That doesn't make them Democrats.

They have a very, very different platform, and I want to dig into it for you. So we'll start with the basics,

and that is just by going to the Democrat Socialists of America webpage and looking at it.

So there are some things you need to know. This party started in 1982. And when it formed, it had like 6,000 members nationwide. But the number grew modestly

over the next 25 years. Then in the mid-2010s, in the wake of Bernie Sanders run for president,

and remember, he's a Democrat socialist and Donald Trump's subsequent win in 2016, that membership

in this party began to soar and now it has like 80,000 members who oppose capitalism.

So this isn't just social.

They oppose capitalism and advocate for public ownership and democratic control of key sectors and resources, such as health care and the shift of power to workers from corporations.

Though socialism was once a dirty word in the United States, it seems to be, it seems to be taking hold.

All right.

So again, just going to the website, and I'm going to type it in right here, Democrat, Socialists

of America, and I visited it quite a few times, so it comes right up for me.

It has photos of Rashida Taleb and Mamdani on the front. It's the largest socialist

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