Given socialism = European social-democracy, in which the economic system is capitalist. It doesn't make sense, except for the guy who's very above the water(or very ideologically inclined), to be against worker rights, vacations, maternal leave, public health system, not having tonnes of people living in misery and in general trying to prevent economic power to takeover democratic power... So, anyway... If you strip the charged ideological rhetoric & all the fear and uncertainty and get back looking at reality as it is. It's painfully obvious the American system could use some reform. I don't think much is gonna happen though, not without insane levels of friction, economic and real power just have a lot of weight and a lot of cards to play(a problem that could be mitigated with more actual democracy, but TBH I think it's a lost cause & pure idealism to talk in this terms).