The Democrat Socilaists of America keep insisting socialism is for the working class.

Then one of their own candidates showed up on Fox News.

And Fox News host Lisa Boothe put Oliver Larkin on the spot in a way he was not prepared for.

The $131,000 Education Behind the Socialist Pitch

Larkin, a Democratic Socialists of America-backed candidate running to represent Florida in the House of Representatives, appeared on The Big Weekend Show recently alongside host Lisa Boothe and co-host Joey Jones.

Boothe and Jones wasted no time flagging the most obvious thing about him: Larkin attended Phillips Exeter Academy, a boarding school that currently runs about $71,000 per year, before heading to Sewanee, which costs upwards of $60,000 annually.

That is roughly $131,000 per year in private education tuition — not counting room, board, or the other expenses that come with elite academic institutions most American families will never set foot in.

Fox News displayed Larkin’s platform on screen during the interview. It calls for Medicare for All and college for all. Boothe pointed to it and told him, “Some people might look at that and maybe think you’re a little bit of a hypocrite on some of this stuff.”

Larkin sat there with a smirk.

Boothe pressed harder. “Why do you think you’re entitled to other people’s money?”

“I’m not entitled to anyone else’s money. I’m talking about universal programs that we all pay into,” Larkin responded.

And then Boothe went straight at the core of it. “But Oliver, let me ask you this. As someone — you — who have attended some of these elite institutions that most Americans can never afford, they could never even dream of affording, how can you sit there and talk about income inequality and some of these different things?”

“When you are the living definition of someone who has experienced great privilege of some of these incredibly elite institutions. So how do you square that hypocrisy?”

Larkin’s answer was revealing. “I certainly have attended some prestigious institutions and I am very proud of the background I come from,” he said. He then pivoted to his father, a retired Army captain who was able to “climb out of the lower middle class” thanks to the military paying for his education. Larkin said it was important to “invest in public education so that we can all stand to benefit from the really robust educational infrastructure I enjoyed growing up.”

So the answer was: his family benefited from government investment in education, and he wants the same for everyone else.

That is a reasonable-sounding answer. It is also the kind of answer that only works if you ignore what the DSA actually stands for.

What the DSA’s Own Platform Actually Says

Larkin is not just a progressive Democrat running on a vague platform of fairness. He is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America — an openly Marxist organization whose platform calls for government seizure of major corporations, the abolition of the US Senate, the replacement of the Presidency and Supreme Court with bodies subordinate to Congress, and the creation of a classless society. The DSA’s own documents describe these goals in their own words. This is not a characterization — it is what they publish.

Larkin has said he wants billionaires “taxed out of existence.” When asked at what rate, he refuses to give a number. That is not a policy position. That is a sentiment dressed up as one.

And the Medicare for All proposal he is championing is not some mild tweak to existing coverage. Government-run healthcare means rationing, bureaucratic inefficiency, and the elimination of patient choice. Countries that have tried versions of it — Canada, the United Kingdom — have documented wait times and shortages that American patients would find unacceptable. The real-world record of centralized healthcare is not a selling point. It is a warning.

But Larkin keeps pitching it anyway, from behind a biography that suggests he has never had to wait for anything in his life.

Hannity Already Had This Fight — and Got the Same Dodge

The Boothe interview was not the first time Larkin found himself unable to answer a direct question on Fox News. Shortly before his appearance on The Big Weekend Show, Sean Hannity pressed him repeatedly on his tax proposals during an appearance on Hannity’s Fox News program.

Hannity asked Larkin how much of every dollar a person making $100,000 a year should be allowed to keep. Larkin would not say. Hannity asked about someone making $500,000. Still no number. Hannity ended up shouting “Give me a number!” repeatedly before the segment collapsed into a commercial break.

“I think that billionaires should be taxed out of existence,” Larkin told Hannity during that exchange.

“So you want to empower the government to take from the most creative providers, the most brilliant people in our country,” Hannity replied.

Larkin kept dodging, insisting it was not “that simple” to answer. But every dollar a government takes in taxes is a dollar no longer working in the private economy. Every program Larkin is proposing — Medicare for All, college for all — requires a funding source. He will not say what that source is beyond “billionaires,” a category that does not come close to covering the tab.

That is not complexity. That is evasion.

The Prep School Socialist Is a Familiar Type

There is a long tradition of wealthy-background leftists demanding sacrifice from working Americans while shielding their own circumstances from scrutiny. Larkin fits the mold precisely. He attended institutions that charge more per year than a teacher’s salary in most states. He campaigns on income inequality. And when asked how he squares those two facts, he deflects to his father’s Army service and talks about investing in government education.

His father’s story is actually a good one. A retired Army captain who used military-funded education to rise out of the lower middle class — that is American upward mobility working as intended. But the lesson Larkin draws from it is not that individual service and sacrifice create opportunity. The lesson he draws is that the government should run everything.

That is a significant interpretive leap. And it is the kind of leap that tends to be easier when the person making it went to Phillips Exeter.

The DSA’s platform — which Larkin has publicly embraced — calls for abolishing the US Senate and replacing constitutional institutions with bodies subordinate to Congress. It calls for government seizure of major corporations. It describes the goal as a classless society, which is textbook Marxism. Every country that has pursued that goal in earnest has ended up with economic collapse, authoritarian drift, and the destruction of the middle class that people like Larkin claim to champion.

But Larkin will not be the one living under the system he is pitching. People who went to Phillips Exeter and Sewanee rarely are.

Boothe asked the right question. Larkin sat there with a smirk, gave a rehearsed pivot, and never answered it. That smirk said more than anything he said out loud.

And voters in Florida deserve to know exactly what kind of program he is actually selling — and who, precisely, is going to pay for it.

Sources: Mediaite, “Fox News Host Calls Dem Socialist Candidate a Prep-School ‘Hypocrite’ in Tense Clash: ‘You Think You’re Entitled to Other People’s Money?'”; Mediaite, “‘Give Me a Number!’ Hannity Brawls With DSA Candidate Over How Much Elon Musk Should Be Taxed”