This is probably the most disappointing thing about being on the left in the U.S. - we’re supposed to be the people who “believe science” and “trust the data”, but I’ve never once seen advocates for this policy or that reverse course when it’s obvious that policy is a failure. Instead, they seem to head straight for the No True Scotsman fallacy. It didn’t work, but only because we didn’t really commit to it. Next time we’ll do it twice as hard and spend three times as much doing it. And if it does work then, it’s because of capitalism. Or white supremacy. Or the patriarchy. If we just fix those, it’ll definitely work. And if not, it’s only because we didn’t really fix those things right because the master’s tools can’t tear down the master’s house.