If you guys ran on just doing that you’d win every election. The only reason you ever lose an election is that you’ve yoked redistributionist policies to the largest social experiment in the history of the world. People don’t want to be guinea pigs in an experiment to see how many of the problems that afflict third world countries are caused by the culture of the people who live there.

The American left could solve this problem overnight by following the lead of the social democratic party in Denmark and getting onboard with immigration restriction. Then you could have a broad coalition to achieve the economic reforms you want. You simply choose to die on the immigration hill instead.