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Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani describe themselves as "democratic socialists", but what they're describing seems to be New Deal-type stuff, not any sort of socialism. I don't have a beef with the substance of their views, but to me it seems to be making the mistake of conforming to Right Wing terminology.

After all, Right Wingers/Conservatives call everything they don't like "socialism". Once upon a time, they could talk like that among themselves but had to watch their language among the normies because there was that big country on the other side of the world with "socialist" right in its name. "Socialism" was what they did, and using that word for us marked you as an extremist freak. But after the Soviets collapsed, Right Wingers/Conservatives felt freed from that constraint, with no significant push-back (those who should have were too busy wanting to be seen as "pro-business" ).

But maybe that fight over terminology has already been lost.