Socialist and progressive figures have found a lucrative platform attacking capitalism, according to economist Stephen Moore, who says they have grown wealthy inside the free-market system they want to overhaul.Moore, a former senior economic adviser to President Trump, told Fox News Digital in an interview that the United States is uniquely positioned to reward people who criticize capitalism.He said public figures, including Sen.Bernie Sanders and online political commentator Hasan Piker, have benefited from the wealth and opportunities created by the American economy while advocating socialist policies.DSA-BACKED CANDIDATES ARE WINNING PRIMARIES AND THEIR VISION FOR AMERICA IS VERY DIFFERENTHasan Piker's outspoken and controversial views have become a point of contention in the 2026 midterms. (Noushad Thekkayil/NurPhoto via Getty Images)"There's no country in the world where you can get rich off of attacking free market capitalism better than in the United States," Moore told Fox Digital.
"And so you have dozens of these prominent voices in the socialist movement on the Democratic side who actually are rich, millionaires or more, and they attack the very system that made them rich in the first place."Moore said a recent USA Today opinion piece made a similar argument.The story was titled "Hasan Piker's luxury lifestyle isn't what Marx had in mind."SOCIALIST BIGWIG BLASTS THE WEALTHY WHILE LIVING IN $1.4M BROOKLYN BROWNSTONE WITH EYEBROW-RAISING BACKSTORYSen.
Bernie Sanders gestures while speaking during a podcast.(FLAGRANT YouTube channel)It read in part, "America's loudest democratic socialists have a problem: Many of them are too rich.
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Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, and an entire class of young socialist influencers are all extremely wealthy.Yet even though their wealth was acquired through a capitalist system they see as immoral, they give very little of it away.""It is remarkable how many of these le...