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The DSA’s leaders are so privileged they can’t even see the insanity of their ideas

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It’s no coincidence that all the prominent leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America turn out to be the pampered children of the upper class, drunk on delusions of their purity of heart.

Gustavo Gordillo, who co-chairs the city DSA branch, lives in a million-dollar Brooklyn house that his dad bought (and had remodeled) for him and his brother; he also paid Gustavo’s rent for years while the Yale grad — well into his 30s — pretended to be an electrician while he worked his way up the DSA ladder.

Gordillo’s parents — Peruvian immigrants who prospered in America! — own two Florida mansions, one on the rental market for $11,000 per month, but he’s never worked a real day in his life.

Which explains his smug assertion that neighborhood groceries driven out of business by city-owned, tax-subsidized stores “shouldn’t have been in that business in the first place”: He has........

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