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Vice President JD Vance is sounding the alarm over what he describes as the Democratic Party’s accelerating drift toward socialism, arguing that Democrats have responded to their 2024 defeat by moving even further away from working-class Americans.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Vance said he had hoped President Donald Trump’s victory would force Democrats to rethink their priorities, moderate their politics, and reconnect with the voters they once claimed to represent.

Instead, Vance argued, the party appears to be doubling down on its most radical instincts.

“My genuine hope was that the lesson the Democrats learned from the 2024 election is maybe we should stop being so crazy,” Vance said.

“And, unfortunately, the lesson that Democrats seem to have learned from the 2024 election is to lean into the most radical fringes of their party.”

Vance’s warning comes as self-described socialist and far-left candidates continue winning Democratic primaries in major races across the country.

In Washington, D.C., Democratic Socialist city council member Janeese Lewis George recently won the Democratic mayoral primary and is now positioned to become the next mayor of the nation’s capital. In New York City, socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani has emerged as one of the most powerful voices on the American left, campaigning aggressively for candidates who share his ideology. In Maine, progressive Graham Platner won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate after appearing with Sen. Bernie Sanders at a high-profile “Fighting Oligarchy” rally.

To conservatives, those wins are not political accidents. They are signs of an ideological takeover inside a Democratic Party increasingly shaped by activists hostile to capitalism, skeptical of law enforcement, and eager to expand government power over nearly every corner of American life.

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten recently described the shift among Democratic voters as “stunning.”

“Capitalism has absolutely fallen through the floor,” Enten said. “It’s now just 42% of Democrats who have a favorable view of capitalism. Socialism, on the other hand, has risen like a rocket.”

Enten also noted that the Democratic Socialists of America now enjoy a positive net favorability rating among Democratic voters and have become increasingly capable of challenging establishment Democrats in primary elections.

That would have been politically unthinkable not long ago.

For decades, Democrats relied heavily on working-class Americans — many of them culturally moderate, patriotic, churchgoing, and focused more on wages, jobs, safety, and opportunity than elite ideological crusades.

Vance argued that those voters are now being pushed out of the party by activists and politicians who no longer understand them.

“I was raised by patriotic Christian blue-collar Democrats who loved this country, but they weren’t Republicans,” Vance said.

“But I feel, unfortunately, that those patriotic blue-collar Democrats, they increasingly don’t have a place in that party anymore.”

That shift helps explain one of the most important political realignments in modern American politics.

Industrial towns and union-heavy communities that once formed the backbone of the Democratic coalition have steadily moved toward Republicans. Counties that supported Barack Obama later became strong Trump territory. Families that voted Democrat for generations have become increasingly open to the GOP’s message on borders, trade, manufacturing, energy, and cultural sanity.

Vance said immigration policy is one of the clearest examples of the left’s disconnect from working people.

Many socialist candidates claim to speak for labor and the poor, yet they also support policies that weaken border enforcement, reduce deportations, or even abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement altogether.

To Vance, those positions are impossible to square with a genuine concern for American workers.

“I always find it interesting when socialists tell me that they really stand up for working people,” Vance said.

“You do not care about working people if you refuse to enforce the border. Stop pretending that you do.”

For conservatives, Vance’s argument cuts directly to the heart of the current political moment. The Democratic Party once depended on blue-collar voters who loved their country, valued work, respected faith, and believed in the American Dream.

Now, the party’s loudest voices are increasingly aligned with open-border activism, anti-capitalist rhetoric, and government-first economic schemes.

Vance’s warning is simple: Democrats did not lose in 2024 because they were too moderate. They lost because millions of Americans believed they had become too radical, too elitist, and too disconnected from the people who keep the country running.

If the party’s answer is to move even further left, Republicans may find even more working-class voters ready to walk away for good.