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I deleted my tweet contrasting an interest in democratic socialism among some on the left with the interest in elevating Trump to dictator among many on the right because I'm a social democrat, not a democratic socialist, and I don't want people confused about these three terms.
I think that those on the political left who don't consider themselves proud capitalists are often (in my experience) social democrats rather than democratic socialists, but in America, as a reader noted, the political right has tricked us into over-using the latter (inapt) term.
If this describes you, you're a social democrat and should identify as such if someone on the right wrongly calls you a democratic socialist. If they ask what a "social democrat" is, ask them to look it up while you look up their favored format: autocracy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_de…
