Seventy percent of Democrats say “some form of socialism” would be a “good thing” for the United States, according to a new Gallup survey.
While socialism is popular among Democratic voters, a majority of voters overall, 51 percent, say embracing it would be bad for the country, the Gallup survey found.
Just 25 percent of Democrats said some form of socialism would be “a bad thing for the country as a whole,” according to the survey, which Gallup released on May 20.
Among Republicans, 84 percent of respondents said that embracing some form of socialism would be bad for the United States. A plurality of independents, 48 percent, said the same.
Establishment Democrats, meanwhile, have attempted to distance their party from socialism ahead of the 2020 election.
“I do reject socialism as an economic system. If people have that view, that’s their view. That is not the view of the Democratic Party,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said last month.
The survey that year found that 57 percent of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism. That survey also marked the first time that Democrats had a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism.
Although Democratic voters are increasingly comfortable with socialist ideas, the only open socialist in the party’s presidential primary, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, has consistently trailed former Vice President Joe Biden in national primary polls.
