{"id":11968,"date":"2019-08-30T14:53:52","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11968"},"modified":"2019-08-30T14:54:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T21:54:01","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-why-are-so-many-young-people-calling-themselves-socialists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/victor-davis-hanson-why-are-so-many-young-people-calling-themselves-socialists\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson: Why are so many young people calling themselves socialists?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/socialism\">\u201cSocialist!\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;is no longer a McCarthyite slur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rather, the fresh celebrity \u201cSquad\u201d of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/ilhan-omar\">Ilhan Omar,<\/a>&nbsp;D-Minn.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; \u2013 &nbsp;often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called millennials would like to live in a socialist country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years ago, septuagenarian Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was considered an irrelevant lone socialist in the U.S. Senate \u2013 Vermont\u2019s trademark contribution to cranky quirkiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in 2016 Sanders\u2019 improbable Democratic primary run almost knocked off front-runner Hillary Clinton, even as socialist governments were either imploding or stagnating the world over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Clinton\u2019s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 general election, Sanders is back, running as a socialist warhorse, promising endless amounts of free stuff, with those promises suddenly being taken seriously.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/opinion\/victor-davis-hanson-why-are-so-many-young-people-calling-themselves-socialists\">Read the full article<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Fox News \u201cSocialist!\u201d&nbsp;is no longer a McCarthyite slur. Rather, the fresh celebrity \u201cSquad\u201d of newly elected identity-politics congresswomen \u2013&nbsp;Ilhan Omar,&nbsp;D-Minn.; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.; and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; \u2013 &nbsp;often either claim to be socialists or embrace socialist ideas. A recent Harris poll showed that about half of so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-372","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12648,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/our-socialist-future\/","url_meta":{"origin":11968,"position":0},"title":"Our Socialist Future?","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 3, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review After the May 25, 2020, death of George Floyd while in custody of officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, protesters demanded the fair prosecution of those responsible. 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