Democratic-Socialists ❌ Social Democrats ✅

Warning: TNL will be LIVE tonight at 9 p.m. in the East!(Photo by Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)I don’t begrudge Wisconsin Democratic voters the decision to embark on the Great Francesca Hong Experiment.But, you know, they shouldn’t have any illusions as to how this is going to turn out.There are two ideas in tension here.The first idea is that Democrats, as a party, need to try lots of different stuff. They need to try diligent centrists, Christian libs, populist crusaders, and McKinsey-style technocrats. It’s not crazy to think that they should also try full-monty DSA. You don’t know what the product-market fit is going to be until you test the market.The second idea is that many of these elections matter. If Hong loses—and I suspect she’s going to get absolutely smoked in November—then th