Defining ‘socialism’ down

Published June 19, 2019 8:32pm ET



If there’s one thing that socialists and Republicans seem to agree on these days, it’s that there are a lot of socialist policies being proposed by Democrats these days.

“Under Nancy Pelosi’s leadership, the past 100 days of the new Congress have been jam-packed with socialist policies,” declared the Republican National Committee. At the same time, socialists such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., defend the label, declaring that if you like policies such as roads, public education, and Social Security, you too like socialism! Socialism, it seems, is all around us.

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