George Will: I Want Mamdani to Win Because We Need a Confined Experiment with Socialism So We Can ‘Crack It Up’

EXCERPT:

WILL: “I want him to win.”
MAHER: “You want him to win?”
WILL: “Yeah. I think every 20 years or so — “
MAHER: “Wait.”
(Laughter)
WILL: “Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism, so we can crack it up again. Socialist slogan used to be ‘Workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains.’ The new socialist slogan is, ‘Trust us, this time it won’t be a mess.’
(Laughter)
So when — when the post-war Labour government in Britain was about to get started, one of their leading lights was a socialist named Aneurin Bevan. He said, ‘What could go wrong?’ He said, ‘We have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish. It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either.’ In three years, they had a shortage of both. That’s socialism.”