Democratic Socialists Are on the Rise. We’ve Seen This Movie Before.

I grew up in a conservative movement that thought it had gotten the better of its worst ideological impulses.

True, there were the usual Father Coughlin throwbacks, people like Pat Buchanan, who were against free trade, sympathetic to Vladimir Putin, down on the Jews and inveterately hostile to immigration, legal or otherwise. There were outright bigots and conspiracy theorists and militia types and their assorted followers, avid or furtive. And there was an outsize share of moralizing hypocrites, inevitable among people too fond of speaking in the name of religion and character.

But that wasn’t the conservatism of the Bushes........

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