Details are not socialism’s strong suit. When it comes to policy, socialists can promise the world, but they rarely have a credible plan for delivering it beyond the initial sales pitch. 

Angie Nixon, a Florida state representative and the Democrat Senate nominee who is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), has done exactly that on the campaign trail. She has promoted the usual progressive wish list: Medicare for All, a $20 federal minimum wage, government-run child care, a national rent freeze and government price controls, tuition-free college, and socialized healthcare. But when you ask her how rent control differs from rent stabilization, how she would implement price controls without creating shortages, or how she could lower the deficit while financing an enormous expansion of government, she has absolutely no idea.

When an interviewer asked Nixon whether she supported Nixon-era price controls, her answer was simply: “We’re looking at all the options.” Asked about her support for federal rent control, Nixon instead called it “rent stabilization.” When pressed on the difference, she admitted there wasn't one. And when it comes to paying for her wider socialist agenda, the answer appears to begin and end with the DSA's usual slogan, “tax the rich.” 

Nixon was even pressed on how much her sweeping new programs would add to the national deficit, and she claimed that they would somehow lower it.

Not only is it clear that Nixon does not understand the financial and economic specifics of her own policy agenda, but the math behind the DSA’s “tax the rich” approach doesn't work either. Even taking every dollar from America’s billionaires and corporations would not come close to covering the long-term cost of the DSA’s agenda. At some point, the bill would land on the middle class, the same people these policies are supposedly meant to help.

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This comes amid a string of other outlandish claims from Nixon: that Florida’s minimum-wage law is “racist,” that federal entitlement programs are under attack, that DEI is an unqualified good, and that Republicans are trying to kill black Americans.

Nixon’s campaign is a reminder that socialism can survive only in the abstract. It thrives on slogans like “tax the rich,” “rent stabilization,” and “Medicare for All,” because those phrases sound promising, and apparently American politicians don't have to properly answer questions like: Who pays for it? How does it work? What happens when it fails? 

The moment the details matter, the agenda falls apart. There is no serious plan to finance it without taxing the middle class, no explanation for how their price controls will avoid inevitable shortages, and no credible path to expanding government on this scale while somehow lowering the deficit.

That is the real danger of candidates like Nixon. She, along with the rest of the DSA, offers voters a fantasy where government can provide everything, wealthy people can foot every bill, and the consequences of economic reality simply disappear.