Socialism Becomes Key Political Issue for 2026
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Socialism is becoming front and center in the United States. The Democratic Party is vying with candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America within its ranks. And Republicans are now planning to use this as a key talking point in the coming midterm campaigns.
Also, in other news, New York City just held a very contentious mayoral election—and this became a national focus, mainly over the Democratic candidates. It could signal whether the party leans toward more centrist platforms, or whether it goes further left with candidates linked to Democratic Socialists of America.
We’ll discuss these topics and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Socialism is now front and center in the United States. Democratic Socialists of America is putting up candidates as key figureheads within the Democratic Party, especially in light of Mondami winning the mayoral election in New York City. |
| 0:14.0 | On another topic, there's been talk of a potential war against Venezuela. Trump is now saying the United States will not be going to war with the country, |
| 0:22.7 | but he does note that Maduro's days are numbered as leader of the country. And also the government |
| 0:28.2 | shutdown is still ongoing. And with the funding freeze in place, we're also now getting more |
| 0:33.5 | information on what's being referred to as massive fraud within the food stamp system. |
| 0:39.6 | I'll be talking about these topics and a lot more today. |
| 0:43.3 | I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigative Reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:58.4 | You might have seen the news right here in New York, Mondami One. |
| 1:02.9 | And socialism is kind of the main topic right now in the United States. |
| 1:09.6 | This is important because the Democrat Party is vying with candidates from the Democratic Socialists of America within its own ranks. |
| 1:11.6 | You have DSA basically doing an internal takeover of the Democrat Party. |
| 1:16.6 | Now Republicans, they're also kind of dealing with their own, you know, split right now taking place internally. |
| 1:22.6 | Both parties could change into something very, very different. |
| 1:26.6 | And on this point, though, with the Democrats, |
| 1:29.6 | at least, Republicans are now planning to use this as a key talking point in the coming midterm |
| 1:34.8 | campaigns. Let me show you this first. Daily Caller says, though midterm elections tend to favor the |
| 1:41.4 | party out of power, meaning the Democrats at cite, the NRC, |
| 1:45.8 | that's the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the House GOP's campaign arm, |
| 1:51.8 | is arguing that 2026 will be different, citing Democrats' historic unpopularity and a more favorable |
| 1:58.8 | political environment the Republicans had during President Donald |
| 2:01.7 | Trump's first term. The NRCC's 62nd video first shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation |
| 2:07.5 | also previews attack lines, painting Democrats as socialists, which are expected to dominate |
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