On Sunday night's episode of Life, Liberty & Levin on Fox News, LevinTV host Mark Levin spoke with Donald J. Trump Jr. about how his family's experiences with socialism have shaped his views on the subject.

"I don't necessarily come from a conservative background, though I've always been a conservative," the president's son said during the interview, attributing a "big part" of that to his mother's experience escaping the Soviet bloc.

Donald Trump Jr. is the son of President Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump, who came of age in Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia but was able to get out in 1972. During his discussion with Levin, Trump Jr. explained how the struggles that those on his mother's side of the family have faced helped form his conservative worldview.

"When I see some of the sort of mainstream politicians of today talking about the great virtues of socialism and communism, you know, I go back to that in my childhood, going over there every summer with my grandfather, who was a blue-collar electrician and really wanted to make sure that we — his grandchildren — experienced that," Trump explained.

The president's son also explained that he often gets calls from his 93-year-old maternal grandmother — who lived through Nazi and Communist occupation and still lives in the Czech Republic — worried about the growing popularity of socialism in the United States.

"She calls me to this day, Mark, in tears," Trump explained. "'Don, you don't understand, the socialism, the communism, it always sounds so great on paper, it's always free, everything's always great, you don't understand.' I have to assure her, 'Trust me, I know; I'm on the leading edge of pushing back against this nonsense.' But when you have a woman who's been through that, who's in tears for fear of the well-being of her children, and her grandchildren, her great-grandchildren, it has to tell you something."

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House Republicans are launching a caucus to fight back the new wave of socialist sympathies coming to the fore in American politics.

Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, first announced the creation of the House Anti-Socialism Caucus weeks ago, but tweeted last week that he had gotten approval from the House to formally launch the group.

“Since getting it approved earlier this week, we’ve seen great support,” Stewart told Blaze Media in a statement Friday. “We have seven original members and I am confident that it will continue to grow.”

According to information from Stewart’s office, the seven other original members of the new caucus are Republican Reps. Brad Wenstrup, Ohio, Guy Reschenthaler, Penn., Rob Bishop, Utah, Bill Flores, Texas, Vicky Hartzler, Mo., Roger Williams, Texas, and Ralph Norman, S.C.

The purpose of the caucus is to “inform lawmakers and the public on the dangers of socialism and to serve as a bulwark to stop the advancement of socialist policies and legislation,” explains a February press release.

“So much time has passed from the fall of the Iron Curtain that many have internalized — or never experienced — Socialism’s ultimate price,” Rep. Stewart stated in the release. “If we fail to recall those dangerous times, the primitive appeal of socialism will advance and infect our institutions.”

Socialism has been a growing force on the Left in recent years, as evidenced most clearly by the surge of far-left support behind self-described socialist politicians Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

Furthermore, a recent Harris poll found that nearly half of young Americans want to live in a socialist country.

The trend has already provided ample fodder for Republican politicians. During his 2019 State of the Union speech, President Trump proudly declared that “America will never be a socialist country,” much to Sanders’ visible chagrin.

Furthermore, the president and vice president’s teams appear to be making the Democrats’ recent flirtations with socialism a main line of attack in 2020, according to Axios.

But the new wave of socialist Democrats bothers more than those on the Right. Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., said earlier this week that she’s a "proud capitalist" who is “offended by this whole conversation about socialism,” the Washington Examiner reported.

“Socialism has no place in the American political tradition, on either side of the aisle," Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation executive director Marion Smith told Blaze Media in a statement about the caucus’ formation.

"It is alarming that socialism is becoming increasingly popular here in America, especially among Millennials,” Smith also said. “Most of them, however, don't know that socialism is the road to communism, and that if implemented, they would lose many of the freedoms that they now enjoy.”

Editor's note: The title of this piece originally stated seven House Republicans had joined the caucus. The number is eight. CR regrets the error.