What is new is the number mainstream politicians who will voluntarily wear the label, while voters seem more willing than in at least a century to take them seriously.
Opponents had attached it, he said, to public electricity, social security, farm price supports, the growth of unions and bank deposit insurance. When Republicans attacked “socialism,” Truman averred, what they were really attacking was the New Deal.
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