Bernie Sanders’s home state of Vermont passed single-payer healthcare, only to scrap it when the price tag became clearer. Maryland enacted a “millionaires tax” more than a decade ago only to discover that rich people can afford to move. And Californians can testify about the gaps between progressive dreams and on-the-ground costs when it comes to the Green New Deal vision of high-speed rail. It’s possible that these are just growing pains for the revolutionary wing of the Democrat Party. Maybe there are solid national majorities that will back the kind of economic policies popular in Los Angeles, Seattle and New York.
But, argues Matt Welch, there’s an alternative theory worth considering.
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