# Erick Erickson Show: S15 EP133: Hour 1 – The Economy and Falling Behind

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Published: 2026-07-22T21:12:12+00:00
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## Resource

Erick opens the week’s big theme, a full diagnosis of the Democratic Socialists of America, arguing the movement is not the poor but downwardly mobile rich kids using Nate Silver’s Cooperative Election Study data on elite overproduction. He hands Republicans a free market battle plan (kill the tariffs, expand school choice, end the nonsense college […]

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