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If Bernie Sanders is the Democratic nominee, everyone in the party should back him without reservation. He believes in democracy and rule of law; even if you think some of his policy proposals go too far, in practice he'd be much more moderate. But I worry about the campaign 1/
I devote a whole section of my new book to the long-standing Republican smear tactic of calling anything that might improve American lives "socialism." Medicare? Socialism? Child care? Socialism. Public schools? Socialism 2/ nytimes.com/2016/07/10/us/…
Basically, they pretend that anyone who wants us to be a bit more like Denmark is trying to turn us into Venezuela. There are basically no socialists in American public life; I include Sanders in that statement. He's actually just a social democrat 3/
But he *calls* himself a socialist. I guess it was about intra-party brand differentiation, or something. But it means that if he's the nominee, many of us will find ourselves in the awkward position of explaining that he really isn't what he says he is. Did we need this? 4/
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