The Week: Socialism Comes for Sunshine State

• Hamas may not be able to win a war, but wow, can they perform in Democratic primaries.

• The Florida Democratic Party nominated Angie Nixon as its Senate candidate. Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, supports eliminating private health insurance, abolishing ICE, and enacting a variation of the Green New Deal. The average Florida voter, however, has no appetite for what Nixon is selling. According to CNBC, Florida has boasted the strongest economy in the nation for the last three years. WalletHub reports that six of the ten best cities in the United States to start a business are in Florida. Moreover, South Florida is full of émigrés from Cuba, Venezuela, and Colombia for whom “socialism” is the dirtiest of words. The state’s Jewish population, meanwhile, will bristle at Nixon’s fierce hostility to Israel. In recent years, the Republican Party has thrown away a host of winnable Senate seats by nominating strange or extreme candidates who lacked appeal to the political middle. Evidently, it is now the Democrats’ turn to make the same mistake.

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• Hamas may not be able to win a war, but wow, can they perform in Democratic primaries.

• The Florida Democratic Party nominated Angie Nixon as its Senate candidate. Nixon, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, supports eliminating private health insurance, abolishing ICE, and enacting a variation of the Green New Deal. The average Florida voter, however, has no appetite for what Nixon is selling. According to CNBC, Florida has boasted the strongest economy in the nation for the last three years. WalletHub reports that six of the ten best cities in the United States to start a business are in Florida. Moreover, South Florida is full of émigrés from Cuba, Venezuela, and Colombia for whom “socialism” is the dirtiest of words. The state’s Jewish population, meanwhile, will bristle at Nixon’s fierce hostility to Israel. In recent years, the Republican Party has thrown away a host of winnable Senate seats by nominating strange or extreme candidates who lacked appeal to the political middle. Evidently, it is now the Democrats’ turn to make the same mistake.