Hillary Clinton spent two presidential campaigns warning that Bernie Sanders was too radical to win.
Now she is standing in a Hamptons mansion with a message about the socialists tearing her party apart.
The one word she used to describe it reveals exactly where the Democrat Party is headed.
Clinton Cheered the DSA Takeover She Once Ran Against Bernie Sanders to Stop
Hillary Clinton showed up at Guild Hall in East Hampton for a conversation with Michael Froman, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, hosted by the Hamptons Institute.
The moderator asked where she sees the Democrat Party headed given what he called a "major upheaval between center-left and democratic socialists."
"The Democratic Party right now is, I think, going through a kind of experiment, like who can actually respond particularly to young people's very real concerns about where they are at this point in their lives and what kind of future do they have for themselves," Clinton said.
"I think that is healthy."
The RNC Research account posted the clip immediately with one word: "INSANE."
Heritage Foundation media fellow Tim Young was sharper.
"Easy for her to say when she has her own security team," Young wrote.
Clinton delivered her endorsement of the socialist experiment from one of the most expensive zip codes in America.
That gap is the Democrat Party in 2026: rich enough to endorse the experiment, too broke to fund it.
El-Sayed and Mamdani Are Pushing the 2026 Midterms Further Left
The experiment Clinton called "healthy" is already producing results.
Abdul El-Sayed – a DSA-backed socialist – just won the Democrat nomination for Senate in Michigan.
Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race running as a DSA socialist and moved to freeze rents across the city.
Trump warned in June that Mamdani's rent policies would turn New York apartment buildings into "ghettos and slums."
Every Democrat running in a swing House district now faces the same reporter question: Do you agree with your party's socialist candidates?
The moderate Democrats in swing districts trying to avoid that question have already discovered there is no safe answer — side with El-Sayed and Mamdani and swing voters walk; refuse and the field organizers who run phone banks and knock doors walk instead.
Democrats are funding that civil war with a credit card. The DNC enters November carrying debt it cannot pay off, unable to bankroll moderate candidates who might actually compete in swing districts, while the socialist wing runs on activist energy money cannot buy.
Clinton handed Republicans the perfect midterm ad – a wealthy establishment Democrat, speaking at a Hamptons gala, blessing the abolish-the-border socialist movement as a "healthy" experiment on American families.
The White House did not let it pass.
"Crooked Hillary Clinton is still whining about her spectacular 2016 election defeat," White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital. "It's time for Hillary to move on."
James Carville Is Sounding the Alarm and Hillary Clinton Is Not Listening
The Left has run this experiment before.
In 2018, the DSA surged. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez knocked off a ten-term incumbent in New York. Rashida Tlaib won in Michigan. Democrat leaders called it a sign of the party's energy and future.
Four years later, Democrats lost the House.
Kurt Schrader, the Oregon Democrat who lost his seat to a far-left challenger, went to the Washington Post to warn the party was "leaving the center wide open for Republicans."
The party didn't listen then. Clinton just told them not to worry about it now.
Not everyone in the old guard is making the same bet she is.
James Carville has spent months telling anyone who will listen that the DSA wing is dragging the Democrat Party off a cliff and that socialist candidates cannot win the competitive races Democrats need to take back Congress.
Carville built his career winning elections – including one of the most improbable presidential campaigns in modern history when he put Bill Clinton in the White House in 1992 against a sitting president his own party's strategists had written off as unbeatable.
Hillary Clinton's career record looks different: zero for two in presidential elections, including a 2016 loss to a first-time candidate that the entire political establishment said was impossible.
Only one of them has any experience winning competitive elections.
Clinton spent 2016 blocking Bernie Sanders from handing the Democrat Party to the socialist wing. Now she is in the Hamptons holding the door open for them to take over the party.
Sources:
- Adam Sabes, "Clinton's eyebrow-raising socialism take sparks brutal mockery: 'Definition of insanity,'" Fox News, August 25, 2026.
- Nick Arama, "Hillary Clinton's New Statement on the Socialist Rise Among the Young Is a Hot Mess," RedState, August 25, 2026.
- Matt Margolis, "The Democrats Have Already Lost to the Socialists," PJ Media, August 22, 2026.
- Mike LaChance, "WHAT? Hillary Clinton Calls the Sudden Rise of Socialism in the Democrat Party 'Healthy,'" Gateway Pundit, August 25, 2026.
- Doug Powers, "Hillary Clinton Welcomes Dem 'Experiment' to See If Unhinged Socialists Can Help Win Young Voters," Twitchy, August 26, 2026.
- Ed Henry, "Democrats' embrace of socialism may win primary elections – but look out in November," Fox News, 2018.