Tuesday’s midterm elections were a bloodbath for Republicans. The blue tsunami will usher in the next wave of wokeness and lawfare in Congress, spearheaded by a litany of socialist candidates who have infiltrated the Democrat Party.

Socialism is taking private ownership away from individuals and collectively redistributing it to the people who “need it.” It focuses especially on big government and social welfare programs like healthcare, but America’s brand of socialism includes a wide-open border, abolishing police and prisons, and even eradicating our constitutional Republic. It is one step away from communism.

According to Fox News, “Democratic Socialists of America are poised to claim victory in two-thirds of the Tuesday elections in which it endorsed a candidate, making the radical offshoot an ascending force within the Democratic Party.” At least 60 of them won their elections.

Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY), Peggy Flanagan (MN), Chris Rabb (PA), Donavan McKinney (MI), Melat Kiros (CO), Claire Valdez (NY), and Angela Gonzales-Torres (CA) will head to Congress. Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY) are returning, too. For an honorable mention, there’s Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, who claims he’s a capitalist but talks like a socialist.

The DSA’s takeover has been a real problem for Democrats, many of whom still oppose unbridled socialism. That’s why you’ll hear lifelong liberals like comedian and commentator Bill Maher say that the “Democrat Party left me behind.” Socialism pushes a platform that many Americans reject: gender-transition procedures for minors, universal public healthcare, rent control, and ultimately the end of capitalism.

However, the DSA’s dominance could prove to be a right-wing boon. Their policies will fail, and once Americans see that, the country will hopefully course-correct. National Review’s Noah Rothman put it best:

[Socialism] will not have failed because the left cannot execute statism with the GOP’s organizational mastery. It will have failed because the engine of American prosperity is the individual, and the primacy of the individual must remain paramount if future generations are to enjoy the covenant we were only fortunate enough to be born into. Even in an election as lopsidedly Democratic as the 2026 midterms, there’s a reason why only one-third of exit poll respondents expressed anything like a positive view of “socialism.”

Did voters know exactly who or what they were voting for? The exit polls suggest many did not — they simply wanted to rebuke those in power for the economy and for getting us into a war with Iran. Even California’s billionaire wealth tax ballot initiative failed, which is hardly a ringing endorsement for socialism as a whole.

Here’s another silver lining presented by the National Review editors:

There is less evidence that Democratic wins represented an ideological victory. Voters said they trusted Republicans slightly more on taxes and immigration. Just 25 percent of the electorate defined themselves as liberal, compared to 34 percent who identified as conservative, and 41 percent who described themselves as moderate. Meanwhile, less than a third of the electorate said they had a favorable view of socialism, with just 9 percent having a strongly favorable view.

As outgoing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis articulated, “Democrats are unpopular. They were able to win based off the sentiment that exists in the country right now. They did not earn a mandate to indulge all their left-wing fantasies. ... This was a rejection of Republicans in Washington, and Democrats just happened to be the beneficiary.”

All that notwithstanding, I have two thoughts that temper the more positive exegesis of Tuesday’s midterms. First, in response to Rothman, the socialists will perpetually argue that their policies “haven’t really been tried yet.” Therefore, even when (not if) the DSA fails, members could convince just enough ignorant voters to keep on giving them power.

Second, concerning the NR editorial, Democrats in power see socialists as winners. In other words, radicalism pays off, or at least isn’t a deterrent to victory. Ergo, this contemporary socialism wave will push leftists even further left, and the Democrat Party will keep encouraging the revolution until the socialists formally commandeer it.

The presidential election season has officially begun (I know, we need a break, but alas), and as we look toward 2028, this week’s losses should inform how we market ourselves and our ideas to the American people. What do they care about? The economy. Fairly or not, people don’t care that the stock market is growing or that jobs are increasing when gas prices, health insurance, and groceries remain unaffordable.

President Donald Trump and the GOP have considerable ground to make up between here and 2028. Let’s get to work!