Barron makes a case for “Socialism” as communism, but his prescription is reminiscent of the New Deal (which was also statist and confiscatory through high taxes, though it did not institute a single-payer health plan). And 1930s liberals did tar their laissez-faire opponents as “fascists,” just as some current liberals have done, though there is some evidence (in Shirer) that FDR sympathized with Nazis; but less controversially, with (statist) Italian Fascists.
Fox has also erred by hinting that the new Socialism in the Democratic Party is communistic, though, briefly, Fox has noted that Socialism existed in the first two decades of the 20th Century.
It should be obvious that there has been no call among the “Leftist” Democratic candidates for a revolution in property relations that would place all economic decisions in the State among a collection of bureaucrats (though a single-payer health plan would do just that).
Rather, the “Left” candidates who seek to unseat the President in 2020 seem to view themselves through the lens of identity politics and populism, since the 1960s, the chief planks in the Democratic agenda.
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