Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Democratic socialism's real threat isn't its platform — it's a "radical temperament" spreading from right to left.
When most people say "socialist," it turns out they mean Norway. So what's actually worth worrying about?
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David French sits down with Curtis Chang to untangle a phrase everyone throws around and few define: What is a democratic socialist? Together they separate the actual Democratic Socialists of America — a movement with almost no traction in Congress — from the far larger "DSA-sympathetic" mood on the left, and ask whether that mood is really the mirror image of MAGA. David makes the case that the danger is temperamental, not substantive: most self-described socialists aren't after Cuba, they're after Norway and Denmark, capitalist democracies with generous safety nets and real tradeoffs. But the same label stretches to cover a press release praising the Castro regime — and that's where things get complicated. A clarifying, non-partisan look at what's actually happening on the American left.
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Democratic socialism's real threat isn't its platform — it's a "radical temperament" spreading from right to left.
When most people say "socialist," it turns out they mean Norway. So what's actually worth worrying about?
🔔 Subscribe to Good Faith: youtube.com/@goodfaithpod
David French sits down with Curtis Chang to untangle a phrase everyone throws around and few define: What is a democratic socialist? Together they separate the actual Democratic Socialists of America — a movement with almost no traction in Congress — from the far larger "DSA-sympathetic" mood on the left, and ask whether that mood is really the mirror image of MAGA. David makes the case that the danger is temperamental, not substantive: most self-described socialists aren't after Cuba, they're after Norway and Denmark, capitalist democracies with generous safety nets and real tradeoffs. But the same label stretches to cover a press release praising the Castro regime — and that's where things get complicated. A clarifying, non-partisan look at what's actually happening on the American left.
#GoodFaith #DavidFrench #DemocraticSocialism #MAGA #Politics #Faith
