What Mr. Yakabuski conveniently ignores, is the fact that all political parties pine for some version of a previously failed economic policy.  What differentiates the left, is its annoying tendency to be apologetic about it and to ultimately implode over internal divisions, mired in the details of previous failures.  One never sees the right apologizing for the very obvious and many shortcomings of its own free market hokum that actually dominates most democratic administrations.