There’s so much going on in the political world that even big stuff can slip by. But, especially in light of what has happened recently, it’s time to revisit the remarks of Democrat Don Leonard two weeks ago.

Leonard, who is running to unseat Rep. Mike Carey (R-OH) in a Columbus-area district, said on a podcast that he’s not a Democratic Socialist, but “even if I were, I’d lie to the people of my district in order to get their votes.”

He said it with a laugh, and politicians, who are called on to talk a lot, do occasionally go overboard in their efforts to be memorable. But this felt more like a revealing and perhaps intentional glance into Leonard’s soul.

We know he is not at all hostile to the Democratic Socialist agenda. According to the Washington Free Beacon, Leonard, a former professor at Ohio State, has published an academic paper that concluded the best outcome for the United States is a socialist “counter movement.”

He has donated to and more than once publicly expressed support for Bernie Sanders and his Working Families Party. He has backed the WFP’s calls for taxing billionaires to bankroll “healthcare you can rely on,” “child care when and........

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