Socialism and the 2020 American Election

Roger Cohen, The New York Times, March 8, 2019

Image from article, with caption: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the lightning rod of a new American politics

In Europe, socialism carries no red-scare potency. It's part of life, and Europe is not Venezuela.

Excerpt:

The United States was founded in contradistinction to, not as an extension of, Europe. Self-reliance is to America what fraternity is to France: part of its core. American space — so immense, so un-European — conjures in Americans a bristling independence of spirit that wants government out of their lives. ...