Socialism fails every time it's tried.
As Milton Friedman, the famed economist repeatedly said (paraphrased),
".... In the only cases in recorded history where the masses have escaped grinding poverty is where there is capitalist system and free trade....There is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a capitalist, free enterprise system...."
Those who choose to ignore history are destined to repeat it.
Those who choose to ignore history are destined to elect Democrats....................