A DSA America? Not Okay

The DSA crowd keeps insisting this time is different, that they've read the right books and learned from the last century of failed experiments. Then you watch one of them explain how rent control definitely won't cause a housing shortage, or how the next version of central planning will finally get the incentives right, and you realize nothing has actually sunk in. It's the same script with better branding.

What's striking is how little curiosity there is about why this keeps failing. Not a passing interest, not a footnote. Venezuela isn't an anomaly to explain away, it's the pattern. Cuba isn't a caution, it's an inconvenience. When the response to decades of evidence is to insist the theory was never really tried, that's not analysis. That's a religious commitment dressed up as economics.

Young people gravitating toward this stuff aren't stupid. Many of them are reacting to real problems, high rent, medical debt, a job market that feels rigged. But the answer to legitimate grievances isn't a system that has produced breadlines and secret police everywhere it's been tried seriously. Diagnosing the disease correctly doesn't mean the DSA has the cure. It means they've found a captive audience for one that's already killed the patient before.