WATCH: Tucker Carlson To Cornel West: Why Has Democratic Socialism Never Actually Worked Anywhere?

On his Fox News show Friday night, Tucker Carlson invited on liberal Harvard professor Cornel West to discuss the ideology of “the future” of the Democratic Party, Democratic Socialism, and what it would look like in America. The problem, Carlson underscored, is that Democratic Socialism has “never actually worked anywhere.” People in Venezuela, which describes itself as a Democratic Socialist country, currently “don’t have toilet paper” and the country is “less equal than ever,” noted Carlson. But West dismissed such ugly realities and stood by the “ideals” of the movement.

Carlson began by noting that radical New York Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was famously described by the head of the Democratic National Committee as ​representing “the future of our party.” Former Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders also describes himself as a Democratic Socialist.