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“Socialist!” is no longer a McCarthyite slur.
Rather, the fresh celebrity “Squad” of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen — Ilhan Omar, Minnesota Democrat, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts Democrat, and Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Democrat — often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas. A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in a socialist country.
Five years ago, septuagenarian Sen. Bernie Sanders, Vermont Democrat, was considered an irrelevant lone socialist in the U.S. Senate — Vermont’s trademark contribution to cranky quirkiness. But in 2016, Mr. Sanders’ improbable Democratic primary run almost knocked off front-runner Hillary Clinton, even as socialist governments were either imploding or stagnating the world over.
After Mrs. Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 general election, Mr. Sanders is back, running as a socialist warhorse, promising endless amounts of free stuff, with those promises suddenly being taken seriously.
Mr. Sanders, like the members of the Squad, has limited political power. But the celebrity and social media influence of these new and retread socialists has been on the upswing — especially in the current 21st century climate of radical transformations in economic and political life.
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See Also:
(1) Trump Rises Above the Critics
(2) Bernie Sanders, blind and bonkers, buoys China’s economy over America’s
(3) Our Tawdry, Untrustworthy Fourth Estate
(4) The Self-Inflicted Martyrdom of Rashida Tlaib
(5) Monmouth University renounces its own poll showing Biden plunging, calls it an ‘outlier’
