# Erick Erickson Show: S15 EP134: Hour 2 – Beat the Socialists With a Good Economy

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Published: 2026-07-23T21:04:24+00:00
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## Resource

Erick builds a full monologue on Nate Silver’s Cooperative Election Study data showing the Democratic Socialists of America are not the poor but downwardly mobile rich kids with prestige degrees, invoking Peter Turchin’s elite overproduction, Joseph Schumpeter’s creative destruction, Graham Platner’s fake oyster fisherman act, and Dan McLaughlin’s Karl Marx versus Frederick Douglass contrast. His […]

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