Overeducated, Undercapitalized, And Insufferable: The Left’s MVPs
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Overeducated, Undercapitalized, And Insufferable: The Left’s MVPs

The DSA cabal claims to represent the working class; reality tells a different story.

Chloe Trapanotto

The “working class” isn’t voting for the Democratic Socialists of America. Underpaid, overeducated, and insufferably self-righteous leftists are.

A new report from statistician Nate Silver found that the most reliably Democratic voting bloc in America holds a graduate degree and earns somewhere between $30,000 and $60,000 a year. Wouldn’t you know it: our favorite little communists, the card-carrying members of the DSA, are overwhelmingly college-educated (80% hold a bachelor’s degree or higher) yet distinctly unprosperous (45% report household incomes under $60,000).

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