Few people actually want to study policy and make decisions based on data. I would hope mustacians are better than that. Like the 4% rule, there are ways to understand government that are much more nuanced than taxes bad, govt bad, capitialism good. It drives me crazy the stupid sound byte propaganda I hear. America is strong because we invented an awsome, effective form of governance that keeps our society stable and funds shared investments in infrastructure, social programs and defense. People have no clue about the problems pre-social security, pre unions, pre anti-trust. Average people dying on a filthy unmaintained street from lung disease working in coal mines is not the society I want, but it is what we get without good socialist government. I know the word is dirty in the US, but it is what we are.
Just my opinion, but I have a lot of data behind my views.