The worse it gets, the better it is: American leftism is thriving on its own failures

The Hill ^ | 15 August 2026 | Jonathan Hurley

[Rummyfan]

From New York to California, the American left is proving that nothing succeeds like failure. From immigration to taxes to health care, politicians are playing to their past fiascos to push an even more radical agenda.

Take immigration. Many, including the Democratic Socialists, have called for open borders or disbanding ICE. After the Biden administration chose to allow millions of undocumented people to enter the country, most Democrats are now calling for “pathways” to make them citizens. After all, they argue, there are too many to deport.

We now know the open border was a choice. The Trump administration immediately stopped crossings using the same laws Biden had refused to enforce. As expected, Democrats are expressing horror at the thought that the government would try to deport the millions that they allowed and even encouraged to enter the country.

The same is true on public health policy. Remember when ObamaCare was going to reduce health care costs and improve health care options? While insisting that they did not want government-run single-payer healthcare, Democrats promised that ObamaCare would lower costs while allowing you to keep your own doctor and health care plan. During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised his plan would “lower your premiums by up to $2,500 per family per year.”

By that measure, ObamCare, or the Affordable Care Act, is a colossal failure. Premiums have nearly tripled since the law took effect, and deductibles have more than doubled. “The cost of coverage for a family of four has increased by more than $10,000,” according to studies.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: frhandwringing; liberaltruth

[buckalfa]

"From New York to California, the American left is proving that nothing succeeds like failure."

It is as simple as the Cloward Piven stratagy. Collapse the system to usher in the revolution.

[A strike]

“The worse, the better.”
-Valdimir Illych

[BenLurkin]

If McDonald’s were to offer ever-shrinking food items at ever-increasing prices, it would go out of business. Government is the only industry that grows with failure.

[Steely Tom]

The author is Jonathan Turley.

[rbg81]

It is as simple as the Cloward Piven stratagy. Collapse the system to usher in the revolution.

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Yes. But the System after The Revolution will be awful.

Oh, so you are sick? Here is your free placebo. Now get back to work.

To make housing more affordable, they will cram 3-4 families into an apartment meant for one.

You get a state pension once you turn 90. And it is basically a worthless ration book.

I’ve been to Vietnam. It’s technically a communist country, but the people are very capitalist (at least in the South). And there is NO social safety net.

[rbg81]

Oh, and if you complain about The Revolution, you get re-educated in a gulag. Or starved. Or shot.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[eyeamok]

The only reason Obamacare is a failure is because there not enough people enrolled and there are to many waivers for high priced inefficient and inferior insurance plans for big companies and Unions. The way to FIX Obamacare PERMANENTLY is easy and President Trump could do it with one simple Executive Order:

All Non Military Federal Employee’s shall enroll in Obamacare for their Primary Healthcare at their own expense or be terminated immediately.

Give our Federal Employee’s the Very Best Healthcare the United States has to offer, OBAMACARE.

[A strike]

what are you saying ?

[nickcarraway]

If this is failure, what would success look like? The left is winning on everything.

[Salman]

We need to proceed as if the system were completely broken. Because it is.

[dfwgator]

“Build Back Better” means destroying first, then building the new order.

And all those people who thought that Communism meant the government would support them sitting around and writing bad poetry and rap music will be in for a rude surprise.

[Mark]

Dear LIBERALS, why does Martha’s Vineyard not having a problem with immigration ?

[oldtech]

So, Democratic Socialists would argue that illegals are “too many to deport”. Well, look at how it got that way. Granted, if you get enough illegals coming in to a country, it may get to a point where it is almost impossible to deport them all. Ask yourselves who let them get to this point. I think we already had the answer to that. The same ones continuing to fight deportation even for illegals who have committed other crimes in addition to being here illegally. Some say there should be no criminalization to crossing the border without permission. Do that enough & at some point the country completely loses sovereignty. After that happens then things really start “going to hell in a handbasket”. I don’t think any legitimate country really wants that.

[oldtech]

So, Democratic Socialists would argue that illegals are “too many to deport”. Well, look at how it got that way. Granted, if you get enough illegals coming in to a country, it may get to a point where it is almost impossible to deport them all. Ask yourselves who let them get to this point. I think we already had the answer to that. The same ones continuing to fight deportation even for illegals who have committed other crimes in addition to being here illegally. Some say there should be no criminalization to crossing the border without permission. Do that enough & at some point the country completely loses sovereignty. After that happens then things really start “going to hell in a handbasket”. I don’t think any legitimate country really wants that.