Karoline Leavitt has a theory on why her generation is going ‘communist’
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
Karoline Leavitt is onto something even if the headline makes it sound flip. There's a real phenomenon here: young people who grew up doom-scrolling through 2008, a pandemic, and a housing market that treats a starter home like a fantasy novel are understandably furious, and socialism offers a tidy villain and a tidy fix. The mistake isn't noticing that anger.
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Leavitt also suggested that school choice could be part of the remedy for the rise of the radical left.
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Karoline Leavitt is onto something even if the headline makes it sound flip. There's a real phenomenon here: young people who grew up doom-scrolling through 2008, a pandemic, and a housing market that treats a starter home like a fantasy novel are understandably furious, and socialism offers a tidy villain and a tidy fix. The mistake isn't noticing that anger. It's pretending the answer is a label swap instead of asking why so many twenty-somethings never got taught how markets, debt, or basic economics actually work before they had opinions about them.
Her school choice point is the more interesting half of this, honestly. If kids are absorbing their entire worldview from one-size-fits-all public school curricula and TikTok, giving parents more say in how and where their kids learn isn't some culture-war stunt. It's a pretty direct response to the complaint she's making.
We'd just push back on the framing that this is generational rot. It's closer to a generation that watched institutions fail them and concluded the problem was capitalism rather than mismanagement. Fix the mismanagement, and the ideology loses its appeal fast.
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