2025年11月，美国众议院通过一项决议，谴责社会主义的“恐怖行径”。9月1日，又有一项新决议谴责“一切形式的社会主义”，特别点名了美国民主社会主义者组织（DSA），即该国主要的社会主义组织。尽管这些文本不具备法律效力，但它们显示出共和党人和部分民主党人对“社会主义威胁”卷土重来所感到的焦虑正在蔓延。
In November 2025, the US House of Representatives voted for a resolution denouncing the "horrors of socialism." On September 1, a new resolution condemned "socialism in all its forms," in particular the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the main socialist organization in the country. Although these texts did not carry the force of law, they showed the anxiety that was spreading among Republicans and some Democrats over the return of the "socialist threat."
受长期DSA成员佐赫兰·马姆达尼（Zohran Mamdani）胜选鼓舞，后者于2025年底当选纽约市长，并在2026年1月的就职演说中宣称要“用集体主义的温暖取代粗犷个人主义的冷酷”，民主党已开始转型。而且似乎奏效了。一年多来，123名获得DSA背书的候选人在各级初选中获胜，其中包括19名国会参选人。这一突破可与2010年极端保守的“茶党”运动相提并论，后者曾重塑共和党的版图。
Galvanized by the victory of Zohran Mamdani, a longtime member of the DSA who was elected mayor of New York at the end of 2025 and who declared during his inaugural address in January that he wanted to "replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," the Democratic Party has begun to transform. And it seems to be working. Over a year, 123 candidates backed by the DSA won primaries at every level, including 19 congressional hopefuls. The breakthrough is comparable to that of the ultraconservative Tea Party in 2010, which reshuffled the deck within the Republican Party.
左翼杂志《国家》（The Nation）称他们为“叛军”。“这场在2026年春夏之交席卷美国的叛乱，伴随着选民投票率的飙升和年轻候选人挑战资深现任议员、在初选中取得抢眼成绩的头条新闻，”该杂志写道，“并没有削弱民主党。相反，它正在为该党注入新的动力。”
The left-wing magazine The Nation called them "the insurgents." "The insurgency that swept across the United States during the spring and summer of 2026, with its spike in voter turnouts and headline-grabbing primary results for young candidates who are challenging entrenched incumbents," it wrote, is not undermining the Democratic Party. On the contrary, it is giving the party new momentum.
根据CBS新闻与YouGov于8月进行的一项民调，58%的民主党选民对社会主义持“正面看法”。另一项由《华盛顿邮报》和益普索（Ipsos）于上个月开展的民调显示，39%的美国人会考虑支持一位社会主义总统候选人。“这是自第二次世界大战结束以来，在美国做社会主义者最有趣的时刻，至少可以说是这样，”37岁的巴斯卡·桑卡拉（Bhaskar Sunkara）说，他是《国家》（The Nation）杂志的总裁，也是美国民主社会主义者组织（DSA）的一位核心思想人物，刚刚出版了《蓝图：社会主义如何在现实世界中行之有效》（The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World）一书。
According to a CBS News-YouGov poll conducted in August, 58% of Democratic voters held a "positive view" of socialism. Another poll, carried out the previous month by The Washington Post and Ipsos, revealed that 39% of Americans would consider supporting a Socialist presidential candidate. "This is the most interesting time to be a socialist in America, since at the very least the end of World War II," said Bhaskar Sunkara, 37, president of The Nation and a central intellectual figure of the DSA, who has just published The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World.