Just who are the voters supporting DSA candidates that keep winning races in Dem primaries? Not blue-collar Americans.

Thomas Edsall of The New York Times looked into this issue and discovered that the whole movement is a masquerade, or what he calls: “A Working-Class Party Without Many Workers”)

Listen to Edsall:

Candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America are surging to victory on the claim that they are proponents of “a government by, for and of the working class” that will wrest power from both “far-right Republicans and corporate Democrats.” Here’s the problem. Most of the leadership of the D.S.A. and a majority of voters who back its candidates are in no way working class. Instead, an elite made up of well-educated professionals dominates this insurgency.

He went on to point out that 85% of the party’s members were white in 2021 (based on a DSA survey). Just 4% held working-class jobs. But 80% of those 25 years or older had college degrees. Abdul El-Sayed, who (narrowly) prevailed in Michigan’s Democratic primary for the Senate, didn’t win any of the 15 counties with lowest share of college degrees, but he won 13 of 15 with most college degrees.

The DSA supports an extreme left-wing agenda touching on transgender rights, taxing “the hell out of the rich,” defunding the police, etc. These positions, notes Edsall, “are decidedly not the policies sought by the bulk of construction workers riding the subway to get to their job sites by 7 a.m.”

Our view: wealthy liberals love socialism because they can afford it.