The thing about the recent boom in popularity for socialism is it’s not even remotely a “workers’ revolution.” In recent elections, the “workers” – i.e. working class people – usually break from the socialists and socialism sympathizers.
Two recent cases: the Dem primaries for Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York’s 13th Congressional District and the victory of socialist candidate for DC Mayor Janeese Lewis George over the more moderate Kenyan McDuffie.
In the former, polling showed Chevalier getting shellacked in working class areas, trailing by ~10%. She made up for that by pulling a whopping 20% advantage among affluent college-educated voters.
Similarly, George trailed McDuffie in DC among lower income and education levels, 5% and 8%, respectively, as well as among black voters by 9%. She made up for those deficits by beating him among the next two economic brackets by ~10%, then pulling a 13% advantage in college-educated voters.
So now we’ve got a pretty decent profile for the contemporary American socialist emerging. It’s less hammer and sickle and more $7 lattes and useless masters degrees.
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