One of many ironies in the "socialism" attack: It was deployed by a president who put his name on $1,200 cash payments to Americans, bailed out farmers hurt by his trade war, tried to send $200 drug discounts to seniors and favors $400B on F-35 jets that don't shoot straight.
The other irony of "socialism" is that the two most socialist programs in the USA, Social Security and Medicare, are mega-popular and politicians who use the word as an epithet tend to take care to show support for them.
Yet another irony of the "socialism" rhetoric is that it is often lobbed by politicians whose states are net beneficiaries of federal dollars from other states they decry as too socialist.
Anyway, I could go on but suffice it to say "socialism" is a buzzword that has lost its meaning in the U.S. political lexicon and become a catch-all for "thing I don't like."
And yes, it's quite effective. ~fin~
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