Bernie Sanders convinced me that socialism can work… But Bernie is not going to like it

I owe Senator Sanders an apology. And a challenge.

For years I stood in front of classrooms and told teenagers that socialism does not work. I was wrong, and I am willing to say so in public. Socialism works fine. It has been working in the United States for generations, on a printed schedule, at places like Fort Jackson, Fort Sill, and Fort Leonard Wood, none of which has a single Bernie sign in the yard.

There is a catch, of course. There is always a catch. The system only works when a specific set of conditions is in place, and every one of them is something @SenSanders has spent fifty years calling cruel. I know he could not survive those conditions, because he already flunked a much gentler version of the test in 1971. We will get to that. Do not skip ahead. It is the best part.

TRUMP IS A CHINA AGENT? — Sir, Your Party Has Been SLEEPING With China

I need you to do something before you read another word.

I need you to think about every time you have seen a Democrat politician, a cable news anchor, a blue-checkmark activist, or a college professor call a Republican a Nazi in the last eight years. Elon Musk waved at a crowd and three days of “expert Nazi imagery analysis” hit every network. JD Vance used an old computer game reference and people in the media spent forty-eight hours explaining why it was secret fascist code. They called Trump literally Hitler. They called his voters fascists. They called the MAGA hat a white supremacist symbol. They called a circle made with fingers a white power hand sign. They had a whole infrastructure — lists, watchdogs, funded organizations, congressional statements, nonprofit endowments in the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS — dedicated to finding Nazis on the right.