Next sentence is “For all their differences, Miller and Ocasio-Cortez both demonstrate the central lesson from the last decade of crisis: There is always another option. The question is whether we will choose a better one.”

I think the author is wrong about Mr. Miller. He was radicalized into an open racist before 2008 and he has the exact background of someone who would be a fascist ideologue no matter what generation or economic system he was born into. If he came to power in the Reagan administration he’d just be expressing it in a Southern Strategy “lock up the drug offenders” way instead of his current bent. If he came into power in the Eisenhower administration he’d push for Operation W*tback and be a staunch segregationist.