Democrats can’t even do socialism right.

America’s two highest-profile socialists once had real Marxist street cred. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was a young barista who steamed her way into public service. Bernie Sanders is a U.S. senator from Vermont with a vaudeville-grade Brooklyn accent. Endearingly rumpled, he appeared to embody the phrase “living paycheck to paycheck.”

These two joined forces early. Their Grandpa-and-Granddaughter-of-Government-Overreach shtick was almost touching in an old-timey way—much like flipping through faded photos of Truman-era coal miners, sipping soup from lunch-pail Thermoses.

They’ve come a long way, baby!

Now known simply by her initials, like FDR and JFK, the Gotham congresswoman recently was spotted flying first class on Jet Blue to a “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in Las Vegas. Another passenger, named Tracy, told The New York Post: “AOC is fighting the system one first-class mimosa at a time.”

There was a time when Sanders denounced “millionaires and billionaires.” But then his own rising net worth and burgeoning real-estate portfolio forced him to whittle that slogan down to just “billionaires.” During a 2020 debate, former New York City mayor and then-presidential candidate

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