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Why does nearly every article about the GA Senate race start with the Republicans groundless charged about the “extreme socialism” of the Democratic candidates? And why is the not only real but self-proclaimed extremism of the GOP never mentioned? /1 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/us/politics/georgia-senate-early-voting.html?referringSource=articleShare
I provided a brief history of the socialism charge from the New Deal to the present in this @DissentMag article and have more to say about it in my book, FREE ENTERPRISE: AMERICAN HISTORY./2 https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/free-enterprise-vs-socialism-brief-history-bernie-sanders-chamber-commerce
Here is a passage from the introduction about the “slippery slope from reform to totalitarianism” that was central to the anti-New Deal playbook and to all subsequent reform efforts. /3
And here is my recent @washingtonpost piece about how poorly such predictions of doom have fared, with a special focus on Ronald Reagan’s laughably bad (bit still widely-quoted) prediction about how Medicare would destroy freedom./4 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/08/31/even-after-their-fear-mongering-proves-wrong-republicans-keep-it-heres-why/
Meanwhile, Kelly Loeffler proudly says she is “more conservative than Attila the Hun.” Yet for some reason the lede seems always to be the GOP charge that Democrats are extremists, rather than her admission of extremism./5 https://twitter.com/cnnpolitics/status/1308179479265710080
