Trump Is Right to Warn Democrats About ‘Socialism’
10th February 2019
Cass Sunstein, usually a dependable Voice of the Crust, suffers an attack of atavism.
Sunstein rightly points out that many vocal fans of socialism have no clue as to what it actually means. I’ll pace him by suggesting that many people who complain about ‘capitalism’ have no clue as to what that means, either, and just use ‘capitalism’ as a catch-all term for ‘not-socialism’ — which it isn’t. The problem is that we don’t have a clever one-word term for an economic system based on private property and free trade, so we’re forced to thrash around in a verbal swamp that helps nobody.
February 10th, 2019 at 19:33
How long do you suppose it will take for him to be publicly pilloried and issue an apology or a retraction?