Dust to dust. Silicon Valley’s Congressman Ro Khanna, who years ago won his place in Washington with a pro-business, generally moderate Democratic platform and has since refashioned himself into a radical leftist who rejects the concept of private property, spent the week leading up to America’s 250^th birthday waging class war on the technology industry, and lowering the threshold of his proposed national billionaire “tax” (the euphemism we are using now for seizing assets) from $1 billion to $50 million. It was quite the pearl-clutching performance from a man who has himself amassed a quarter billion-dollar fortune while in office, decrying the innate unfairness of America, the country that made this child of immigrants one of the richest men in history.

But as obnoxious as he is, it would be a mistake to focus too much on Traitor Ro, as this sociopathic chameleon is only reading the room. Violent Marxism is ascendant on the left, and as results pour in from primaries around the country, it’s clear today a politics of parasites is table stakes for would-be Democratic Party stars. The parasitism is defended, always, in the name of progress, and the target is somehow never the billionaire singer, film producer, or athlete, but some industrialist responsible for generating energy, technology… abundance, which I believe a few of you’ve been asking for.

I don’t know, do we think the Democrats can drive us to a world post-scarcity while rounding up every industrialist actually growing our economy, taking all their shit, and throwing them in jail? Well, it’ll be a fascinating experiment, and I’ll at least have plenty to write about. That is, provided Elizabeth Warren’s gulag has an internet connection — which doesn’t look good.

In any case, we should at least be curious: what happens to a country or city that successfully exiles its “evil capitalists”? It’s an interesting question. Which we’ve already answered. Like, a lot. In almost every corner of the world. But there’s one especially important example right here at home.