Despite Soaring Rhetoric and Promises, American Voters Reject Socialism’s Failures

Despite Soaring Rhetoric and Promises, American Voters Reject Socialism’s Failures

Perhaps one of the best-turned phrases of recent memory comes from a 2019 Wall Street Journal article. In it, political scholar Joshua Muravchik opined that “Socialism has failed everywhere it’s been tried—even where it succeeded.” Since about 1900, the United States has flirted with socialism. Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Barack Obama … Read more