In these politically incorrect times across the pond, desperate times call for desperate words, so the Republicans in all their glory have started bandying around accusations of “socialism” against Obama.
The S word throws a bigger, scarier shadow in the US than it does in Europe. Over there it is rather like saying you have hidden a red under the bed, and you think Stalin might be a good man for the next secretary of state.
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