Thread by @LarryGlickman

In his State of the Union, Donald Trump said, "We will never let socialism destroy American healthcare!" Way back in April of 1945, the great actor Orson Welles had a convincing response to what he called the "socialized medicine epithet."
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And here is the journalist Lowell Mellett, who produced the famous "Why We Fight" series during WWII, noted that groups like the AMA try to convince people that "some dark menace hangs over them" with the socialized medicine charge.
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In 1949, the editorialist of the Huntsville Times, using the phrase "cry wolf," noted that such epithets "lose force, after ceaseless repetition." Little did that editorialist know that the "ceaseless repetition" would continue for another 70+ years.
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