Rich-Kid Socialism: Zohran, the DSA, and the Trickle-Across Problem

I grew up in a two-bedroom Harlem apartment with eight people in it and took the train downtown every morning to a rich private school on the Upper West Side — which is the whole reason I can smell rich-kid socialism from a block away. So let's talk about Zohran Mamdani, who wants to reset the race so everyone starts from the same line, and the small problem with that: some people show up in rags and some people show up having lived comfortably their entire lives and are now tired of the burden of affluence ready to take their suits off to blend in. How novel. That's trickle-across economics — progressive universalism that can't see the block I grew up on. I don't need Zohran to be a bad guy. I need the policy to account for compounded need instead of stepping over it.