Socialists’ hypocrisy ‘so thick and so pure you could snort it’: Joe Concha

Joe Concha's line about hypocrisy being "so thick you could snort it" is funny, but the underlying point is the one worth sitting with. Michigan isn't some random test case. It's a deep blue state where the DSA sees an opening, and they're not hiding the playbook anymore. That's actually new. For years the socialist label got softened into "progressive" for general election purposes, then quietly discarded once the person was in office. Now they're running as what they are and daring voters to notice.

The hypocrisy part is real too, and it's not abstract. These are candidates who build entire platforms around the evils of concentrated wealth and corporate power while running campaigns funded and staffed like every other machine operation, using the same media consultants and donor networks they claim to despise. Nobody expects politicians to live like monks. But there's a difference between compromise and outright contradiction, and voters in Michigan are being asked to ignore a pretty wide gap between the rhetoric and the reality.

Calling it a "national test lab" is the smart framing here. If DSA-aligned candidates can win a Senate seat in a state like Michigan running an openly socialist message, that tells you something about where the Democratic Party's center of gravity is actually headed, whatever the leadership says publicly. If they lose badly, that tells you something too. Either way, pretending this is a fringe sideshow rather than a genuine fight over the party's identity is the bigger act of self-righteousness.