Crying ‘socialism!’ isn’t a strategy — at least not a winning one

Tuesday night’s results should force a serious reckoning inside the Republican Party. Not just with candidates who underperformed, and not just about the political environment, but with the consulting class that spent this election cycle insisting to donors and candidates they could win by just drumming up their base — “Socialism!” — and turning out their own.

They were wrong. And the consequences are now impossible to ignore.