Source: The Dispatch
by Kevin D Williamson
“Socialism is a word with some heft on both the left and the right. Just as Republicans started calling themselves ‘populists’ and ‘nationalists’ and whatnot when they decided that they were sick of standing with Paul Ryan and preferred kneeling before Donald Trump (‘a matter of taste,’ as the secretary general of NATO might put it), some Democrats call themselves ‘socialists’ and join organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America as a way of saying, ‘I hate Republicans more than Chuck Schumer does.’ Republicans sometimes use ‘socialist’ roughly the same way … but lately they just use it to mean ‘hated un-person’ …. However it is misused today, ‘socialism’ is a word with a meaning and a history, and I am just silly enough to continue to believe that these things still matter a little bit.” (06/27/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/zohran-mamdani-socialism-new-york-city/