Republicans are clearly feeling the heat on healthcare. This stunningly dishonest op-ed published under the name of Donald Trump -- if he had any significant role in writing it, I'll eat my hairpiece -- reeks of desperation 1/ usatoday.com/story/opinion/…
I'll deal with the health care issue later, but let me say something about "Democrats want us to become Venezuela" . That's now a popular trope on the right, which is fed by some journalists whose brains apparently freeze when they see the word "socialist" 2/
Just look at the actual platform of someone like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our "socialist" of the moment. It doesn't at all looks like someone who want us to be Venezuela; it looks like someone who wants us to be Denmark 3/ ocasio2018.com/issues
Or actually a bit to the right of Denmark, which not only has single-payer but actually has socialized medicine, with hospital and many clinics directly operated by the government 4/ international.commonwealthfund.org/countries/denm…
There actually have been a few efforts on the right to portray Denmark (which has the lowest inequality among advanced countries) as a socialist hellhole. But this fails the laugh test. So they have to pretend that Democrats are Chavistas. 5/
This is the signature of a party that has nothing to run on except defense of the God-given right of powerful men to abuse women 6/
