‘Donald Trump Is a Socialist’

Kevin Williamson: “When I write ‘socialist,’ I do not use the word the way most right-leaning commentators use it, meaning: ‘bad.’ If you want to get a feel for exactly how insipid and repetitious the contemporary online right is, do a search for ‘cackling socialist’—you don’t even need to include ‘Kamala Harris.’ You’ll be hip-deep in stupid in two clicks.”

“The thing about socialism is, it stays socialism—whether you like socialism or dislike it. It is a word that means something, and what it means isn’t every dumb thing you don’t like up to and including publicly funded sex-change operations for currently incarcerated illegal-immigrant felons…”

“Socialism does not mean government-funded education and retirement benefits and health care subsidies—those things are simply welfare, and there are better and worse ways to go about doing such things. Socialism means a centrally planned economy, one that is dominated by state action irrespective of whether it is dominated by formal state enterprises.”