Bernie Sanders proudly describes himself as a socialist (or more commonly, as a democratic socialist). To Americans of a certain age, this is a potential liability. I’m just old enough (38) to have grown up during the Cold War, a time when socialist did not just mean far left but also implied something vaguely un-American. If you’re older than me, you may have even more acutely negative associations with socialism and may see it as a step on the road to communism. If you’re a few years younger than me, however, you may instead associate socialism with the social democracies of Northern Europe, which have high taxes and large welfare states. Sweden may not be your cup of tea, but it isn’t scary in the way the USSR was to people a generation ago.
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