Donald
Trump’s economic advisers released a bizarre report attacking
socialism yesterday. Socialists can only take one lesson from it:
we’re winning.
by
Miles Kampf-Lassin
Part
7 - Why They’re Scared
With
growing support for socialist policies and the Democratic Socialists
of America (DSA) now counting over fifty thousand members and running
candidates in races across the country opposing the Trump
administration’s policies on the economy, immigration, housing,
health care, and more, it shouldn’t come as a shock that the White
House is attempting to tamp down on this swelling movement.
Yet
while the Council of Economic Advisers expresses concern in droll,
wonkish prose about the supposed evils of socialism, conservative
activists are much more focused on instilling reactionary narratives
and rolling back democratic rights throughout US society.
Rather
than trying to win over Americans by offering better policies, the
Right is instead countering the Left’s success in the court of
public opinion by disenfranchising voters, stoking racial animus,
blanketing the airwaves with conservative propaganda, and bankrolling
far-right candidates. Their strange pro-capitalist academic screed
through official White House channels is just the intellectual side
of that project.
The
Trump administration has every reason to be scared. Socialists are
building a movement.
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