The Washington Post earlier this year ran a guest editorial by longtime Republican “political consultant” Ed Rogers headlined “The Democrats' Frightening Embrace of Socialism.” According to Rogers, the Democrats are in fact becoming “like the old socialists” and are preparing to ruin us with their plans for handing out free college tuition and other social benefits. These progressives, according to Rogers, want to go back to the failed socialist plans of the 1950s, which could radicalize American politics.
Last Saturday evening I heard a cretinous version of the same message when Fox News's own Greg Gutfeld went after Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the young radical from Scarsdale, New York, who is likely to become a congresswoman this fall.
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