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Rep. Ro Khanna (D-California) has been taking steps like these to raise his national profile ahead of a possible 2028 presidential campaign. He has been positioning himself to be one of the most appealing candidates to the party’s left wing.

washingtonpost.comRo Khanna, eyeing the White House, tries to sell capitalism to the leftThe California Democrat has been positioning himself to be one of the most appealing 2028 presidential candidates to the party’s left wing.

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Ro. Hi. Huge fan. Uhh, gonna save you some time. Leftist know how capitalism works way better than capitalists. That's why we aren't capitalists.

You could sell me [more] capitalism by getting the money out of politics. It's one thing to say people who are good at business things should control more business. It's quite another to say they should also control the government.

Progressive Silicone Valley Favorite Khanna, who told Obama not to arm Ukraine because they were Nazi, managed to make the most stock trades of anyone in Congress. Yeah -

resident of a neighboring district to his: homophobic chinese immigrants who hate bike lanes and want black kids, latino kids and southeast asian kids banned from berkeley love ro khanna! huh, wait a second, i wonder why...

Capitalism is not merely having trade or markets or investment. Capitalism is an all-consuming imperative that everyone must either keep squeezing our greater and greater productivity no matter what, or else have your livelihood taken. He's selling that. Who would want it?

And no capitalist economy has avoided collapse. It always comes crashing down in an endless series of panics or runs or bubbles or depressions or crises. And then socialism has to patch it all back together with public money. Then capitalists start again, pretending they built it. It's all lies.

I suspect that if he runs in the primary, he wins less than 3-4% in any state (if the campaign gets that far) and never gets a poll in double digits. He’ll be crowded out by the following if they run: AOC, Ossoff, Newsom (ugh), Harris, Buttigieg, and Beshear, probably others. Quite the long shot.