{"id":2999,"date":"2026-07-07T18:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2999"},"modified":"2026-07-07T18:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T18:41:24","slug":"ingersoll-hammer-and-sickle-nope-welcome-to-socialism-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2999","title":{"rendered":"INGERSOLL: Hammer And Sickle? Nope. Welcome To Socialism-Chic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_1 --> <\/p>\n<p><em>Below is State of the Day, a morning newsletter by Daily Caller Editor-at-Large Geoff Ingersoll.\u00a0Sign up here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2997\">The New York Times\u2019 \u2018Catch And Kill\u2019 Backfires<\/a><\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><i><span>Greetings, Dear Reader,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I\u2019m back! I unfortunately spent the 250th weekend battling bronchitis (while traveling, yay!, perfect timing!).<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>So that\u2019s why you missed me yesterday and probably Thursday. I can\u2019t even remember at this point, it\u2019s like when you\u2019re a parent, time just becomes a blob of wiping faces and getting snacks in faces.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_2 --> <\/p>\n<p><i><span>So what\u2019d I miss? A lot, it looks like.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>One thing I noticed that I think is funny is the concept some are calling \u201csocialism chic.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>SOCIALISM CHIC<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/10519169\/dailycaller_incontent_3 --> <\/p>\n<p><span>The thing about the recent boom in popularity for socialism is it\u2019s not even remotely a \u201cworkers\u2019 revolution.\u201d In recent elections, the \u201cworkers\u201d \u2013 i.e. working class people \u2013 usually break from the socialists and socialism sympathizers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Two recent cases: the Dem primaries for Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York\u2019s 13th Congressional District and the victory of socialist candidate for DC Mayor Janeese Lewis George over the more moderate Kenyan McDuffie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So now we\u2019ve got a pretty decent profile for the contemporary American socialist emerging. It\u2019s less hammer and sickle and more $7 lattes and useless masters degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The modern socialist coalition doesn\u2019t look like Rosie the Riveter. It\u2019s not a room full of black-faced coal workers. It\u2019s a grad-student with a NYT subscription and a framed poster of Zohran Mamdani. They are college-educated, urban, and comfortably removed from the working-class base the movement ostensibly claims to represent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2995\">China Tries Building Great Wall Around AI Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Just look at the leaders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chevalier attended Columbia University for Middle Eastern studies \u2013 a euphemism for pro-Hamas activism \u2013 and is now a doctoral student at CUNY for sociology with a focus on immigration and criminal justice. Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson was born to two nerd famous professors and literally grew up in academia. She attended Oxford before dropping out and eventually founding the \u201cTransit Riders Union,\u201d a 501c3 dedicated to \u201crider equity\u201d on public transit. Born to a highly-educated chemical engineer, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu attended a top one percent high school, then Harvard, twice. She almost immediately went into government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A son to wealthy parents, Graham Platner\u2019s rape-tastic voyage started by attending a $75,000\/yr prep school. NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani is literally a theater kid. He also has very wealthy parents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Starting to notice a pattern, yet?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>These people and the people they represent are not interested in seizing the means of production. They wouldn\u2019t know what to do with any of it if they did. In their worldview, homes just get magically built and electricity magically piped into their living rooms. Food is magically delivered and transportation is magically assembled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Their supporters are cut from identical cloth. The so-called \u201cdownwardly mobile\u201d elite. They got the expensive education and now they want the job.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Except, there is no job for people with $250,000 in debt and doctorates in sociology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the wildest dreams of the socialist-chic crowd that\u2019s threatening to overturn the democratic establishment, they\u2019d get ~$170,000\/yr sinecures in any number of pointless laptop jobs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pick up a hammer? Hell naw, dog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>We want that corporate DEI gig that contributes nothing to the bottom line. We want pointless, ineffectual government-funded executive positions at NGOs. We want to be in the administrative state! Pay us mid six figs. Or at least enough to support our semi-affluent urban lifestyles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Welcome to socialism chic, where our upper-middle class livelihoods are mandated either by government fiat or mob intimidation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>MORE LINKS<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Next Two Targets In Socialist Takeover Are Fertile Grounds For Radical Politics<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Up next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>ROOKE: Surveillance State Has Arrived, And Masked Heroes Are Already Fighting Back<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/hometransferguide.com\/?p=2993\">Dolly Parton Announces Upcoming Broadway Show, \u2018Dolly: A True Original Musical\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>In true American fashion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Buckingham Palace Invites Prince Harry To Stay Over, Then Says Nevermind<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>Brutal.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent elections, the \u201cworkers\u201d \u2013 i.e. working class people \u2013 usually break from the socialists and socialism sympathizers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2030,313,629,2027,49,3047,621,733,496,1071,217,315,226,316],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-columbia-university","tag-communism","tag-cultural-marxism","tag-darializa-avila-chevalier","tag-dei","tag-hamas","tag-harvard","tag-kenyan-mcduffie","tag-marxism","tag-michelle-wu","tag-new-york-city","tag-socialism","tag-unions","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>INGERSOLL: Hammer And Sickle? 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