Ron DeSantis contends that young people who say they prefer socialism to capitalism may be doing so in part because “true capitalism” isn’t being practiced in the United States.

Responding to a May 2025 poll from the libertarian Cato Institute that found 62% of adults under 30 years of age like “socialism,” the Florida Governor told Fox News viewers on Saturday that they had never actually lived under capitalism in a pure form.

“When they say they prefer socialism to capitalism, some of the things they’ve seen in our economy, in their lifetimes really isn’t true capitalism. I mean, you know, bailing out the Wall Street banks …. Corporate welfare, cronyism. We’ve seen that in various forms in the last, you know, 20 years throughout American history,” DeSantis told friendly inter

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