It takes a special king of clueless to look at second longest-running experiment in social science history -socialism -, observe its universal failure, and not see it as the cause of those failures.
“Casey understands the depth to which Venezuela has fallen–he lives in Caracas!–but he can’t bring himself to offer an honest diagnosis.”
Casey wants to keep his cushy job as a reporter for the New York Times. Therefore he will always be a mouthpiece for the progressive narrative instead of reporting the truth.
I wonder if there is a journalism school in America teaching “who, what, when, where, why”. There certainly isn’t a media outlet of any type separating reporting from editorial (i.e. propaganda).