Kayleigh McEnany argues at FoxNews.com that Democrats are pursuing a losing strategy by embracing socialism.
In the last century, socialism and communism proved to be bankrupt ideologies that crippled economies, impoverished millions, destroyed personal freedom, brought dictators to power, sparked wars and turned millions of people into refugees fleeing their home countries to seek freedom in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Nations in Eastern Europe abandoned the failed ideologies. The Soviet Union broke up. And even Russia and China were forced to adopt some free market practices to improve their economies and the lives of their people.
But today, the hottest trend among some far-left Democrats is to embrace socialism – calling it “Democratic socialism” to make it sound more appealing.
Going off the deep end like this is a sure-fire losing strategy for Democrats, because the farther left they go the more Americans get left behind. It’s a safe bet that voters are more likely to support the party of Lincoln than the party of Lenin.
Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont – a self-described Democratic Socialist who nearly captured the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 – now touts Denmark and Sweden as his models of socialism. But it wasn’t too long ago that he and others praised Venezuela as a beacon of the socialist dream.
Today Democrats are loath to mention Venezuela, where the economy is in freefall and almost 90 percent of the people are living in poverty. But many nevertheless loudly praise the socialist ideology that is responsible for much of Venezuela’s troubles.
