Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's $3,500 Suit Fits a Longstanding Socialist Tradition

Practically speaking, the process of proselytizing and mobilizing a population, consolidating power, and converting an economy to central planning-to say nothing of running it-starts and ends with a small, elite corps of ruling intellectuals. That over time they accord to themselves the trappings of the moneyed class they simultaneously assail is neither surprising or hypocritical.