It’s hard to keep track of all the times the US socialist movement has been declared vanquished.

There was Bernie Sanders’s loss in 2016, of course. There was the “near-shutout for the anti-establishment left” in 2018 (when the “Squad” was first elected). The “massive rebuke of socialism” of 2020 came next (when the Squad expanded and Medicare for All was supposedly rejected by voters despite many of its supporters winning in tough seats). Socialists suffered “setbacks at every turn” the following year, too (when 70 percent of Democratic Socialists of America [DSA] endorsees won their races). And they did so in 2022 after another “spate of losses” (in a year that saw the addition of several more socialist and left-wing officials to Congress).

Things sound pretty bad for the US left.