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One of the top honchos with the Democratic Socialist of America struggled to explain what “taxing the rich” meant and appeared clueless about the Clinton era landmark Israeli Palestinian peace effort, during an embarrassing radio interview with The New Yorker Friday.
Megan Romer, one of the two national co-chairs of the organization, seemed bewildered by a question from the magazine’s editor David Remnick about one of the DSA’s signature positions.
“Well, what does ‘taxing the hell out of them’ mean?’” Remnick asked on the episode of The New Yorker Radio Hour titled “How Socialist Is the DSA? Megan Romer Explains“.
“Uh, yeah, you know, again, I don’t have like a solid…” Romer awkwardly chuckled.
“But shouldn’t you?” Remnick pressed. “If you’re the co-chair of the DSA, shouldn’t you be more specific than ‘taxing the hell’ out of something? What exactly do you mean?”
“Um, that’s a good question,” Romer said, her eyes widened in shock that someone would challenge her beyond the catchy slogan that was often used by Mayor Mamdani during his campaign.
“So again, it’s democracy, right?” she continued. “And we have to look at what we have to spend and what we need. We don’t want to depend on the existence of millionaires because that means people are still getting exploited.”
Social media had a field day with the clip, which quickly went viral.
“When you realize you took $60,000 out in student loans and can’t answer a single friendly polite question,” slammed media commentator Stephen L. Miller on X.
“They have never been challenged on any of this for their entire life, by anyone. An entire generation of privileged idiots.”
Remnick then asked Romer whether the DSA supported a two-state solution or a binational one-state solution — where both Israelis and Palestinians would co-exist under one state — to the decades-long conflict in the Middle East.
Romer picked a different option.
“Our position is a free Palestine with a capital in Jerusalem, so I think that could be safely read as a one state solution,” she proudly stated, making no mention of what would happen to the 10 million people living in Israel.
When Remnick followed up by asking whether she would have been satisfied with the Camp David Summit proposal, Romer’s brain appeared to break again.
“Good question,” she said. “I need to look at what the actual specifics there were, I don’t know them off the top of my head.”
Former President Bill Clinton famously brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to the Maryland retreat in 2000, to lay out plans for a two-state solution, but the historic efforts ultimately failed.
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