“Socialism is not about the environment, it’s not about justice, it is not about virtue. That system is socialism.”— Vice President Pence, speech at CPAC, Feb. 28“I want you to put socialism on trial.”— White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow, speech at CPAC, Feb. 27Quick, is there a difference? Fascism, National Socialism (the Nazis) and Soviet Communism emerged as dictatorships that eventually ran aground because they were unsustainable. But even if socialism failed there, it has worked relatively well in other countries, such as Peru and Bolivia. Trump, on occasion, has tried to link the collapse of the Venezuelan economy to a broad condemnation of socialism.

Source: Washington Post March 05, 2019 07:52 UTC