party is divided and it tells you why leaders like joe biden, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi have been so solicitous to the squad, why they have literally done a lot of whenever the squad is protesting on evictions or other issues, they haven t challenged the squad because at least half of the democratic party according to the fox news poll has a very favorable view of socialism and a negative view of capitalism. republicans are unanimously supportive of capitalism. most all independents like capitalism. half of the democratic party support socialism. dana: ocasio-cortez blasting conservative democrats. conservative house democrats, let s stop pretending the dems who threaten to tank the president s agenda work with
think we should bring some socialism into our system is growing. and mostly young people millennials are entering adulthood with more debts, worse career prospects and far left hope they will be able to own their own homes and get married. many are giving up on america s economic system entirely. a new gallup poll finds 43% of all-american adults think that, quote: some form of socialism would be a good thing for this country. among those aged 18 to 3457% support socialism. a shocking number. victor davis hanson a senior fell at the hoover institution. he joins us now. thanks for coming on. this is not the only poll to reach this conclusion. what s your reaction? a couple of things. i think that ignorance. public school system. popular culture. they glorify it as a fuzzy
supports socialism. only 20% support socialism. if they know they want to get elected they can t be seen as full blown socialists, the problem is that 20% of the country is 40% of the democrat party. they re trying to find a way to straddle this issue that ocasio-cortez and other of the new generation democrats have brought forward and they don t know how to handle it. they are on a hot plate now jumping around trying to find a set of words that will allow them to straddle that effectively and that s going to go on for a long, long time. sandra: enter howard schultz. earlier in the day prior to her making those comments, alexandria ocasio-cortez, saying that socialism is taking over the democratic party and ocasio-cortez heard about this, she responded and called it fear mongering over the subject. she was then asked about the
discrepancies that we see. the fox news poll, first of all, these are folks who their they e putting socialism against capitalism. 57% prefer capitalism. when you break it down further and look at the numbers of democrats who support socialism, 77% of democrats agree that the country would be better off more socialist. this tends to support what you were just saying. oh, my god, i would love to be able to explain polls to you, heather. when do you the numbers, and you say socialism, people think of venezuela. ask people if they like social security. bernie sanders says people should make a living wage. the people on the right love to come up with titles and say he wants america to be like venezuela. a small businessman like me pays 46% taxes while corporate america pays 12 or 13 and we want to give them trillions of