{"id":22952,"date":"2026-08-26T23:17:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22952"},"modified":"2026-08-26T23:17:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T23:17:06","slug":"the-stunning-rise-of-the-democratic-socialists-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22952","title":{"rendered":"The Stunning Rise of the Democratic Socialists of America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DSA has shown that they can win some blue districts, but they haven&#8217;t shown that they can win elections that, without their supposed DSA advantages, would have been won by a Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The socialist politician to have won the most support on a national level is Bernie Sanders, and he is not a member of the DSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Republicans love running against the DSA and right-wing media likes plastering Democrats as the DSA, but Democrats are not the DSA. We are talking about a handful of successful politicians, not most Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Stunning Rise of the Democratic Socialists of America\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHsJRddkWNY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DSA has shown that they can win some blue districts, but they haven&#8217;t shown that they can win elections that, without their supposed DSA advantages, would have been won by a Republican. <\/p>\n<p>The socialist politician to have won the most support on a national level is Bernie Sanders, and he is not a member of the DSA. <\/p>\n<p>Republicans love running against the DSA and right-wing media likes plastering Democrats as the DSA, but Democrats are not the DSA. We are talking about a handful of successful politicians, not most Democrats. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HHsJRddkWNY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[704,426,988,198,1268,509,560,948],"class_list":["post-22952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-aoc","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-democratic-party","tag-elections","tag-political-parties","tag-politics","tag-socialism","tag-socialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22953,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22952\/revisions\/22953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}