No, Venezuela, Santa isn't a socialist

Socialists just don’t understand Christmas. For three decades, Cuba banned Christmas, even as the Soviet Union vainly fought to abolish the Christian holiday from its Marxist calendar. But Cuba relented and the Soviet Union is gone, while Christmas still stands. Now it’s Venezuela’s turn. That country, spiraling into chaos and hyperinflation in the wake of socialism’s failure, is desperately trying to co-opt Christmas. “Venezuela’s socialist government has seized nearly 4 million toys from a private company and says it intends to hand them out as Christmas gifts to poor children this holiday season,” the Associated Press reports. “The country’s fair pricing authority seized the toys from three warehouses run by Kreisel, Venezuela’s largest toy distributor, on Friday. Two company executives were detained on suspicion of promoting price speculation More…