TRIGGERnometry - The Real Reason Socialism is on the Rise - Konstantin Kisin

00:00:00.000 Why Socialism is on the Rise

00:00:02.060 In the wake of Zoran Mamdani's win in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York,

00:00:11.100 there's been a glut of commentary from people who didn't see it coming,

00:00:14.680 attempting to understand what is happening.

00:00:16.880 Some, like investor and former Trigonometry guest Bill Ackman,

00:00:20.620 argue that Mamdani is a uniquely talented retail politician who outworked the competition.

00:00:26.200 In this conception, his policies were not the determining factor.

00:00:30.140 Others, like fellow investor Tyler Winklevoss,

00:00:32.860 believe that it's simply time for young people to be reminded of the realities of socialism.

00:00:37.900 According to this view, indoctrinated at school and university

00:00:41.300 and let down by parents who failed to prepare them for the real world,

00:00:44.800 millennials and Gen Z just won't wake up until they face the reality of Mamdani's insane policies, 0.79

00:00:50.180 like government-run grocery stores and rent freezers.

00:00:53.220 Others still take a dimmer view of the next generation,

00:00:56.220 proclaiming that Mamdani won because of vibes.

00:00:58.720 The center-left, on the other hand, consoles itself with the notion

00:01:02.040 that he was up against a terrible candidate in Andrew Cuomo.

00:01:05.620 All of these people are right, and all of them are wrong.

00:01:09.120 It's true that Mamdani appears to have the common touch,

00:01:12.420 but many people who do are unable to produce the stunning victory he achieved.

00:01:16.940 It's true that young people do not understand the history of socialism

00:01:20.120 and have little idea of just how terrible the consequences of Mamdani's policies will be.

00:01:25.080 It's true that vibes were a powerful force in this election,

00:01:28.820 but politics has always been about vibes.

00:01:31.520 The elections of Barack Obama and President Trump were about vibes too.

00:01:35.580 And yes, it's true that Cuomo is a terrible candidate

00:01:38.160 who's facing allegations of sexual harassment,

00:01:41.200 as well as scrutiny for his disastrous decisions during the pandemic.

00:01:44.980 But that doesn't explain the popularity of Mamdani,

00:01:48.040 only the unpopularity of Andrew Cuomo.

00:01:50.000 The reality is that none of these variables on their own

00:01:53.060 are sufficient to explain the rising popularity of socialism

00:01:55.920 in many Western countries, or, more specifically, many large Western cities.

00:02:01.380 Every comedian has to learn this lesson the hard way.

00:02:04.640 You may have great jokes, but people will only laugh

00:02:07.500 if they agree with the premise of those jokes.

00:02:10.020 The fact that for at least a decade our schools and universities

00:02:12.940 have acted as work madrassas

00:02:14.600 is sufficient to prime young people for receptivity to socialism.

00:02:18.560 But it does not explain why the ideas are landing as hard as they are.

00:02:23.620 So, why is socialism becoming popular?

00:02:26.260 I tried to remind my conservative friends of this

00:02:28.700 at the end of my speech at the first R conference, when I said,

00:02:32.600 Many of you here are conservatives.

00:02:35.080 I'm not. I look terrible in tweed.

00:02:38.820 That's why I identify as politically non-binary.

00:02:43.780 But I can tell you conservative something.

00:02:46.020 You will never get young people to want to conserve a society 1.00

00:02:50.260 and an economy that is not working for them.

00:02:53.660 We will not overcome woke nihilism

00:02:56.040 as long as young people are locked out of the housing market,

00:02:59.240 unable to pair up, unable to have kids,

00:03:02.060 unable to plan for the future.

00:03:03.440 Born in 1982, I am what you might call a geriatric millennial.

00:03:10.900 I entered the workforce in 2003 and worked solidly for over a decade,

00:03:15.360 making a good income as a translator and then as a circuit comedian.

00:03:19.120 Together with my wife's modest income as an artist,

00:03:21.520 we earned a little above the median household income in Britain.

00:03:25.140 We bought our first property, a tiny apartment, at the age of 35.

00:03:29.380 Far from being unusual, this is becoming normal.

00:03:32.020 In London, the average age of a first-time buyer is 35.

00:03:36.940 In New York, it's now 37.

00:03:39.220 The counter often wheeled out against this argument

00:03:41.900 is that while certain aspects of life have become more challenging,

00:03:45.520 young people now enjoy access to an immense array of consumer goods,

00:03:49.520 electronics, food variety, and so on.

00:03:52.260 But the problem is that some things matter more than others.

00:03:55.720 Housing is one of them.

00:03:57.600 Most people, for example, would not want to have children

00:04:00.100 until they have a place of their own.

00:04:02.320 And as any parent will tell you, having kids changes everything.

00:04:06.280 If you can't afford to buy your own place and settle down,

00:04:09.520 you're stuck in a permanent adolescent limbo

00:04:11.960 in which making the right decisions no longer makes sense.

00:04:15.500 I know many people of my generation and younger who, it could be said,

00:04:19.880 waste lots of money on coffees, eating out, and so on,

00:04:23.760 while paying rent instead of saving up for their own place.

00:04:26.520 The problem is, though, that saving £200 a month towards a deposit

00:04:30.660 on your first property makes very little sense

00:04:33.120 when the price of that property grows by tens of thousands every year.

00:04:37.580 The sense that the things you actually want deep down

00:04:40.160 are speeding away from you on a train you'll never catch

00:04:43.160 is the real driving force behind the popularity of politicians like Mamdani.

00:04:48.640 Young people are open to socialist demagogues 0.99

00:04:51.000 not because they've sat down and done the sums on their policies.

00:04:54.040 They're open to them because they're desperate and see no way out.

00:04:58.260 This, by the way, is always how radical and unworkable ideas become popular.

00:05:03.420 The rise of communism and fascism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

00:05:07.440 was the direct result of the excesses of the Industrial Revolution.

00:05:11.760 During that period, human wealth shot up.

00:05:14.920 But so did wealth inequality,

00:05:16.560 with the people at the top accumulating most of the gains.

00:05:19.960 By the middle of the 19th century,

00:05:21.600 the top 1% of people in Britain owned 50-60% of the wealth.

00:05:26.640 Sound familiar?

00:05:27.500 The rise of socialist politicians

00:05:29.160 and the popularity of left-wing commentators like Gary's Economics

00:05:32.560 are not the problem, they are a symptom.

00:05:35.860 And until the real problems are addressed,

00:05:38.140 it's Mamdani's all the way down.

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TRIGGERnometry - July 01, 2025

The Real Reason Socialism is on the Rise - Konstantin Kisin

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