The Fake Populist Spawn of the Educated and the Privileged

It seems like all the DSA kiddies are the spawn of educated and credentialed experts. Should we be worried?

Christopher Chantrill | August 25, 2026

Are you worried about the DSA kiddies? Folks like Zohran Mamdani, son of a college professor and a filmmaker? Or Katie Wilson, child of two evolutionary biologists?

It seems like all the DSA kiddies are the spawn of educated and credentialed experts. Should we be worried?

Well, according to Bjorn Merker in Perishing Promise, something similar was going on in Berlin back in 1840. The place was swimming in university educated rich kids spouting crazy Romantic nonsense. People like Karl Marx, son of the leading lawyer in Trier, just east of Luxembourg. Karl was having a grand old time with his Brudi (German for “bros”) in Berlin, living off an allowance from Papa (just like Katie Wilson), although Papa kept telling him to get a job. But then Papa died and Mutti cut him off. No problem, reisches Kind Friedrich Engels stepped in.

Enough about those rich-kid German students in Berlin in 1840.

But should we be equally concerned with the DSA rich-kiddies of 2026? Probably. But there is this, from a noted intellectual of the ages:

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.

If you don’t know who wrote........

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