Economic freedom and political freedom go hand in hand because economic freedom decreases the dependence of individuals on government or other potential forces in society that would restrict liberty or attempt to centralize power.

Which is why the DSA's platform to "replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress" sounds less like a naive take on democracy and more like a scheme to eliminate checks and balances on a government socialists aspire to control.

Democrats have always clamored for more control over people and centralized power (see Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt), but the party’s recent embrace of socialist candidates is an ill-advised attempt to embrace totalitarianism.