MS NOW Leftist: DSA For European Social Democracy, Not Soviet Socialism #Political
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe, as left-wing cable networks continued to be forced to cover the rise of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) due to their continued wins in Democratic primaries, guest Anand Giridharadas, an online newsletter publisher, downplayed concerns of the DSA having radical ideologies. He asserted the DSA was like to “left, center-left ideology in most European countries,” and it was not “gulag socialism” or “Soviet Union Socialism.”
Co-host Willie Geist turned to Giridharadas in the aftermath of another DSA-candidate victory, this time in Colorado. Geist wondered: “But is this a bigger movement for the Democrats? Is it a problem for Democrats nationally because Republicans are going to use this - some believe extreme views of some of these candidates - against them nationally?”
Giridharadas followed Geist and connected the socialist rise “to the kind of oligarchic power that we see being exercised in Washington.”
After he praised the “broad and diverse” nature of the country, he said “often” most people in the DSA “are of working-class who have lived the struggles of most people and are not the kind of millionaires or typical in Congress.”
On Wednesday, Morning Joe Guest Anand Giridharadas said the DSA has a "left, center-left ideology" like European Social Democracies, as he then told viewers that the rise of the DSA comes from those who "didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War." pic.twitter.com/NjeTGVpmav
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He then started to talk about socialism, and said the story was less about Americans “becoming socialist: and more about how they “didn’t grow up with the baggage of the Cold War”:
I think it is actually a new generation of people in this country didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War, didn't grow up with, like, bomb shelter drills in the Cold War. And so when they hear socialism, they're not thinking about, you know, a Red Scare of a Soviet Union overloading the world, which if you're of a certain age, that was the fear that you were that you were told.
After Giridharadas minimized the Soviet Union and the Red Scare, which he labeled as “the fear that you were told,” he continued to say the DSA would be a simple “social Democracy” like a “left, center-left” ideology in European countries. He explained:
Democratic socialism is social democracy, which is essentially the left, center-left ideology in most European countries, which is basically we can have nice things, right?
He then assured viewers the DSA was just so “we can have nice things” and was definitely not like the Soviet Union:
This is not gulag socialism. This is not the Soviet Union socialism. This is like buses should be free, housing should be affordable. People shouldn't die of preventable illnesses because they don't have the right health care plan.
Not helping Girdihadas' claims, one DSA candidate, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has showcased some communist affinities, which include complaints that a bookstore did not showcase The Complete Works of J.V. Stalin in its banned book section.
Chevalier also, according to the New York Post, “called for government-run farm cooperatives, reminiscent of the farm programs of Stalin and Mao.”
For a party, the DSA, that Giridharadas tried to assure did not emulate “Soviet Union socialism,” some candidates and influential DSA-aligned streamer Hasan Piker, who has worn outfits that look suspiciously like Mao and showed glee when gifted Mao’s Little Red Book, sure seemed like they had an affinity for Soviet-style governing systems.
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MS NOW’s Morning Joe
July 1, 2026
6:46:31 AM Eastern
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WILLIE GIEST: Anand, if you put this together in Colorado with what happened last week in New York City, what do you see? Are these just specific to these districts? Not terribly surprising that a very Progressive candidate would win in some of the places that we've seen. But is this a bigger movement for the Democrats? Is it a problem for Democrats nationally because Republicans are going to use this, some believe extreme views of some of these candidates, against them nationally?
ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: Well, Willie, you're on a roll with stringing these stories together. I mean, you were just we were just before the break talking about the president using the American presidency as a vehicle to profit from crypto and other things and making a billion-plus dollars on it. And then you have people saying, “Why are Democratic socialists winning in different parts of the country?” Well, it may be as a reaction to the kind of oligarchic power that we see being exercised in Washington.
And I think, you know, it's very important to understand in a country like this that is broad and diverse, and if you drive an hour, you can get to a whole new kind of religious worldview, ideological worldview, relationship to land and space. This is a diverse, big country. So, it's not going to be a uniform thing, but something is happening, and I think it is fresh faces. It is people, often in this wave, who are of working-class backgrounds, who have lived the struggles of most people and are not the kind of millionaires or typical in Congress.
It is young people, in addition to just the ideological aspect. But the ideological story is important. And I think what is happening above all is less than Americans are, you know, becoming socialist.
I think it is actually a new generation of people in this country didn't grow up with the baggage of the Cold War, didn't grow up with, like, bomb shelter drills in the Cold War. And so when they hear socialism, they're not thinking about, you know, a Red Scare of a Soviet Union overloading the world, which if you're of a certain age, that was the fear that you were told.
If you're 25, in which a lot of these voters are electing these candidates in a lot of places, what you understand, I think rightly, is like social democracy, right? Democratic socialism is social democracy, which is essentially the left, center-left ideology in most European countries, which is basically we can have nice things, right?
This is not gulag socialism. This is not the Soviet Union socialism. This is like buses should be free, housing should be affordable. People shouldn't die of preventable illnesses because they don't have the right health care plan. And I think it makes sense that in an age of the first trillionaire in this country and a billionaire president fleecing us through elected office, that you see people who present a different story winning.
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