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A Gallup poll released last week finds 43% of Americans now hold a favorable view of socialism – an outcome that marks “the first time this figure has exceeded 39%” in the pollster’s trend since 2010.
Despite this finding, the poll shows Americans still clearly favor the economic concepts of small business (95%); free enterprise (77%); and capitalism (55%) over socialism.
The polling firm notes that, since 2010, “positive views of big business have fallen by 14 percentage points, free enterprise by nine points and capitalism by six points.”
“Small business is the exception, with views of it unchanged,” Gallup explains. “Meanwhile, positive impressions of socialism have risen by seven points.”
While much of the rise in positive views of socialism has been largely due to Democrats – who jumped from 50% favoring socialism in 2010 to 66% in 2025, Gallup says, nevertheless, that, this year the surge is coming from independents who, last year, polled at 37% positive but now come in at 45%.
“Socialism now ranks ahead of big business among independents, although capitalism, free enterprise and small business remain more positively viewed,” the pollster acknowledges.
From 2025 to this year, Democrats’ favorability toward socialism remained the same at 65%, while Republicans’ low favorability continued at 14%.
While much of the rise in positive views of socialism has been largely due to Democrats – who jumped from 50% favoring socialism in 2010 to 66% in 2025, Gallup says, nevertheless, that, this year the surge is coming from independents who, last year, polled at 37% positive but now come in at 45%.
“Socialism now ranks ahead of big business among independents, although capitalism, free enterprise and small business remain more positively viewed,” the pollster acknowledges.
From 2025 to this year, Democrats’ favorability toward socialism remained the same at 65%, while Republicans’ low favorability continued at 14%.
When age of survey participants is considered, the poll finds adults between the ages of 18 and 34 view socialism more favorably than capitalism, 57% vs. 43%. Meanwhile, those aged 55 and older have a more positive view of capitalism than socialism, 65% vs. 34%.
Among those respondents whose household income is less than $50,000, 47% say they have a positive view of socialism – but their favorable view of it is tied with that of capitalism at 47%.
Despite the marked shifts toward socialism by Democrats and – this last year – independents, Gallup observes that the trends actually “don’t indicate wholesale movement away from markets and toward socialism.”
“Small business remains nearly universally popular, and free enterprise continues to receive broadly positive ratings — including among Democrats and younger adults, who are more positive toward socialism than other groups,” the polling firm notes.
Law professor and legal analyst Jonathan Turley commented Friday on the rise of “the socialist chic,” as observed in the poll.
“Like clothing styles, if you wait long enough, socialism tends to come back into style with generations with no memory of past failures,” Turley wrote. “However, it is an astonishing trend in one of the most prosperous nations on Earth that outlasted a history cluttered with the broken failures of socialist and communist systems.”
Turley, the author of Rage and the Republic, points to the “new slick packaging of socialism” advertised by political leaders such as Zohran Mamdani who now offers the failed economic system under the guise of “the warmth of collectivism.”
“The Democratic Socialists of America are enticing voters with narratives like ‘Imagine the end of capitalism,’” he observed. “Those words promise voters that there is a brave new world without landlords, debt, mandatory work hours, and ‘food, education, energy, medicine, and transportation… are common goods and utilities.’”
“What is incredible is that many are buying this pitch,” Turley lamented.
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