Growth of Democratic Socialists since 2016

The Democratic Socialists got created in 1982 as a sort of, uh,

fusion of these very fringe socialist, uh, groups and sort of members

paid things like 5,000 people. It was a very small fringe thing.

Um, and in the 2016 campaign, a legacy of the Bernie Sanders

candidacy is the membership of the Democratic Socialists, of the

sort of cadre of the vanguard-

Yeah

... ballooned from 5,000 to 50,000.

The median age went from 66 to 33. And so it

was this, it was this old,

uh, socialist people thing to a young,

um, revolutionary thing. And, uh, and yes, it has, it has a

certain amount of energy. It has, it has a certain amount of charisma.

You know, the, uh, again, the, the establishment Democrats,

they're all lame.

They can't say anything. It's, I mean, it's the same problem with

the SPD, CDU people in, in Germany.