Real socialism has never been tried.
How many times have we heard that from the Left, who insist on ramming an ideology responsible for 100 million deaths and hundreds of millions of people living in abject poverty and oppression? Far too many to count. They insist if we just give socialism another chance, it'll be rainbows and unicorns for all of us.
The New Yorker is really hoping this time it sticks.
Unlike every other Western democracy, the U.S. has no meaningful Socialist Party, and socialism has never overtaken either of the country’s two major political parties. American socialism was last prominent in 1912, but fractured with the Bolshevik Revolution, the Second World… pic.twitter.com/HwNxNzMh41
— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) November 9, 2026
Milwaukee, Wisconsin — my hometown — has a history of socialism. Our municipal building is named for Frank P. Zeidler, a socialist mayor of Milwaukee. Zeidler ran the city from 1948 to 1960. Today, the city of Milwaukee has a 22.8 percent poverty rate and a rate of 1,145 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, putting it well above the state and national average. There were 141 homicides in 2025.
It's also one of the most racially segregated cities in the nation, with the metropolitan area ranking first or second in several surveys. Its district, Milwaukee Public Schools, is about 50 percent black students who routinely test at the bottom nationally in reading and math.
The last time a Republican was mayor of Milwaukee was in 1908, when Sherburn M. Becker finished up his term. How did all that socialist and Democrat rule work out for Milwaukee? Now imagine those failed policies on a national scale, with hundreds of millions of people.
Has anyone in the DSA considered that, just maybe, all the success of America is *because* we haven’t had a true socialist party? Have they ever read history? Have they ever had a single intelligent or critical thought? It appears none of these things are characteristic of the…
— Grant Ellison (@secondorderfx) November 10, 2026
The DSA knows this. It's one of the reasons they hate this country. The entire motivation behind the movement is to knock America down a peg or two in the global standings. Our low poverty rates, our relatively low crime rates, our constitutional republic all make us a good outlier. Socialists want to destroy that so America is no different than South Africa or some other Third World hellhole.
We're all equal when we're all poor and oppressed, after all.
