We Are All Social Democrats Now
By Kevin Drum
July 3, 2018 at 09:56AM
via Kevin Drum – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/07/we-are-all-social-democrats-now/
«It's funny. I guess what really gets me is that we already have a perfectly good term to describe people like Ocasio-Cortez (and Bernie Sanders): social democrat. That's basically the European left, which is why Ocasio-Cortez's platform would sound pretty ordinary if she were running for office in Sweden or Germany. It's what I call myself if I'm talking to someone who understands what it means. But the fact that it's foreign makes it taboo in America. Instead we make up a new term and then struggle to define exactly what it means.»