The Left Knows Leftism Doesn’t Work - Victor Davis Hanson - American Greatness

Do not expect the radical left to survey the wreckage of socialism and communism in history and accept that statism impoverishes people and erodes their freedoms.

• There will never be admissions by our elite that progressivism exists mainly for the acquisition of power by the utopian and virtue-signaling few, who ensure that they are never subject to the baleful implementation of their ideological agendas on the rest of us.
• Still, leftists look around at what they have done to America in the last four years and implicitly know that the plan did not work, the people detested it, or both.
• How do we know this? 
• By a variety of barometers...