The hot, humid summer of socialism cooled down a couple of degrees Tuesday after Francesca Hong, a DSA darling, conceded to her more moderate opponent, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, in the Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial primary.
Suck on that, Hasan Piker, you “Lulu Leninist.”
In all seriousness, Hong’s defeat shocked a lot of people and triggered a good old-fashioned finger-pointing war on the left.
But another big topic of debate is the polls and the pollsters. More specifically, how the polls and pollsters got the race woefully wrong. So wrong, in fact, that some online left-wingers believe the race was rigged and stolen by the Democratic establishment in the dead of night. Perhaps?
No, there are several perfectly reasonable explanations for why Hong was billed as the shoo-in candidate but still lost. One of those explanations has less to do with when and how the polls were conducted, or other problems with pollsters’ methods. It is actually evidence that Americans have discovered a chink in the armor of the Democratic socialists, and that Hong was the first to fall from arrows that slipped through this crack.