During a recent event, Hillary Clinton commented on the rise of socialism in the Democratic Party and called it ‘healthy.’
One has to assume that this is an attempt to remain relevant, and for Hillary to ingratiate herself with the DSA wing of the party, should they eventually become a force to be reckoned with after the midterms.
FOX News reports:
Clinton’s eyebrow-raising socialism take sparks brutal mockery: ‘Definition of insanity’
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the Democratic Party’s current “experiment” amid the rise of democratic socialist candidates “healthy,” drawing swift conservative backlash from critics who accused her of embracing the party’s socialist wing.
“The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment, like who can actually respond particularly to young people’s very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves? I think that is healthy,” said Clinton.
Clinton, a matriarch of the Democratic Party, defeated democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2016 presidential primary. Her remarks come as socialist candidates increasingly challenge establishment-backed Democrats in races across the country.
Clinton spoke Monday in conversation with the Hamptons Institute, weighing in on the Democratic Party’s ideological direction as it searches for ways to connect with younger voters while democratic socialist candidates have increasingly notched wins during the primary season.
The moderator asked Clinton where she sees the future of the Democratic Party as it undergoes a “major upheaval between center-left and democratic socialists” during their conversation on diplomacy, national security and global leadership.
Watch the video below:
INSANE
Hillary Clinton says the Democrat Party is “going through an experiment” to see if far-Left, socialist candidates — who want to abolish prisons and borders — can win over young voters. pic.twitter.com/0Hja6X5xHK
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) August 25, 2026
David Strom commented on this at Hot Air:
The Democrats have a problem that Clinton and most Democrats are trying to address, and it is a huge one: they are losing their working-class base due to their adoption of luxury beliefs and dependence on college-educated elites, and their rising acceptance of socialism is just an extension of their adjustment to that reality. Socialists are typically downwardly mobile elites and elite aspirants, who ought to be in the sweet spot for Democrat Party recruitment, but they are also highly disaffected with the establishment as a whole and committed to destroying it.
So, contra Clinton, the rise of socialism among the young is neither healthy for the country nor for the Democrat Party itself.
Hillary is simply trying to show that she is still devoted to a party that has moved on without her.
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