The Democrats' frightening embrace of socialism - Chicago Tribune:
"Speaking at an event last week in New York City, Hillary Clinton said something interesting about Democrats today and their lurch to the left.
Clinton said being a capitalist “probably” hurt her when campaigning against democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in 2016.
Think about that.
Part of the reason so many Republicans are frozen like deer in headlights when it comes to President Donald Trump is the horror of thinking about Clinton as president.
It is stunning to realize how in today's Democratic Party, being a capitalist is something one must either apologize for or at least give qualified acceptance.
Talk about nostalgia for the 1950s.
It seems that socialism is making a comeback.
...Democrats want to talk about Republicans living in the past, but the new progressives, as they like to call themselves, are in fact a lot like the old socialists.
They want free college, free cash, free health care, new mandates for this and that, and so on.
The latest progressive policy du jour gaining traction among Democratic Party presidential hopefuls is the so-called “job guarantee.”...
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