Obamacare Fail, a blog I have mentioned here before, has a great bit of pre-1981 Ronald Reagan radio commentary, on the topic of what socialists don’t get:

Something Kevin Williamson reminded me of yesterday: like Sarah Palin, Reagan was no wonk. And he didn’t need to be. He was less concerned with the empirical details of how big government fails — perverse incentives, free-rider problems and all that — than he was with the psychological, even spiritual question of why big government fails.