SOCIALISM ISN’T FREE. The radical Left’s socialist agenda would cost American households $355,000 EACH over the next decade. Democrats promise “free” everything, but it’s a lie. Hardworking Americans will be the ones stuck with the bill.

Socialism Is Giving Republicans an Opening Socialism is gaining ground on the American left, but what do voters actually think about it? Emily Seidel (@SeidelSays), president and CEO of Americans for Prosperity (@AFPhq) and senior adviser to AFP Action (@AFPAction), joins the Daily Signal’s Rob Bluey (@RobertBluey) on this episode of “Midterm Report” to reveal what AFP has learned from conversations with roughly 10,000 Americans in competitive Senate states. Seidel says 56% of those surveyed have an unfavorable opinion of socialism, while 59% see the Democratic Party as controlled by its extreme left wing. Yet Democrats have gained an advantage on an issue Republicans once dominated: the economy. Seidel explains that apparent contradiction, why the cost of living remains voters’ overriding concern, and how the choice between what she describes as government control and economic freedom could shape the midterms. She also explains why AFP believes its grassroots outreach is dramatically increasing enthusiasm among Republican-base voters.

Socialism is a machine for consuming capital while pretending to create it. Every socialist program starts the same way: a politician identifies something people want, promises to deliver it without a visible price tag, and taxes or prints the money to fund it. Venezuela had this down to an art form by 2015. Price controls on food, nationalized oil revenues redistributed as subsidies, Maduro declaring the supermarket shelves would stay full. By 2017, Venezuelans lost an average of 11 kilograms of body weight from hunger. The machine ate the capital, then ate the people. Prices carry information. When a government fixes the price of bread below market, bakers stop baking. When it taxes productive capital to fund consumption, the capital stock shrinks. Ludwig von Mises called this the calculation problem: without genuine price signals, central planners are flying blind, allocating resources based on political pressure rather than actual scarcity. Chronic shortage sits underneath their rhetoric of abundance. Rent is higher because zoning boards and rent stabilization laws choked off housing supply in cities like San Francisco for decades. Your healthcare costs more because Medicare and Medicaid inflate demand while regulatory capture insulates hospitals from competition. Specific politicians passed specific laws that produced specific shortages, then campaigned for re-election by blaming the market. Voting for a slightly less interventionist candidate while holding your savings in dollars is rearranging furniture on a sinking ship. Hard assets held outside the banking system, particularly bitcoin, gold, property, and stocks, remove your stored labor from the reach of the printing press. This is a basic act of self-preservation in a system designed to extract your productivity under the guise of compassion. Stop waiting for permission to opt out.

Socialism makes false promises of abundance. It delivers empty shelves. History has shown what happens when government takes control of the farm — farmers lose their land and freedom, harvests collapse, and families go hungry. America’s farmers and ranchers feed the world. Under President Trump, we will defend their freedom to keep doing it. We will NEVER surrender American agriculture to socialism. See the real cost of socialism ⬇️