Americans Will Support Socialism If Republicans Fail To Reform The System, Former White House Adviser Warns

During an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast released Friday, a former adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy warned the free market may be at stake if the nation does not reform its institutions.

“Are we at a time right now where it feels like we’re just going to be status quo for the next four years?” former Kennedy adviser Calley Means told host Joe Rogan. “I’m worried about socialists taking over because I think unless the Republican Party actually has an anti-corruption plan to actually fix this, Americans are going to vote for a different solution.” The interview was released days after Republicans lost their majorities in both chambers of Congress following Tuesday’s midterm elections.

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Means also told Rogan the Republican response to socialism should be, “Oh, we, you know, support free markets.”

“We don’t have a free market in healthcare. We don’t have a free market in agriculture. We don’t have a free market in housing,” Means continued. “If the Republican Party does not listen to what Trump said during the campaign, stop trying to subvert him, but actually — you know — try to do what he said and resonate with voters on— we’re screwed. Before you have a free market, you have to fix the structural problem.”

Means noted that this observation, which he said President Donald Trump campaigned on, is similar to what people like Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Democratic Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed