Ruh-Ro. We need to tamp this guy down a fair bit.
Don't need him scaring the wee ones.
Quote:
Ex-CNN Star Sounds Alarm After Poll Shows Dems Ditching Capitalism: 'Socialism Will Not Sell… It Is a Loser'
Chris Cillizza, who spent years at CNN and The Washington Post, is not a conservative.
That makes his blunt warning Tuesday about the Democratic Party’s socialist drift all the more striking.
On his YouTube channel, Cillizza cited new Gallup polling released earlier in the day that found 66 percent of Democrats now view socialism favorably.
Only 42 percent of Democrats view capitalism favorably.
“I guess it’s not terribly surprising, but I do think if I am a Democrat who wants to win the 2028 election,” he noted, “that would worry me, candidly, because socialism broadly will not sell.”
“You can call it democratic socialism. You can call it whatever you want. But the idea of socialism will not sell in the country,” he added.
Cillizza continued, “And if Democrats are branded socialists, and numbers like this make it pretty easy to do that honestly, and factual to do it, I do not think that they will win. I think you have to reframe this.”
He urged the party’s stars — New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, and New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — to drop their socialist labels entirely...
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Really wish he hadn't gone so far there in that last paragraph. Will have to count on the Dims total lack of introspection to carry the day, despite the possibility that they might actually adhere to truth in advertising, ironically enough.