Does Anyone Need to Worry About Who Wins in 2024?

I don’t know who pisses me off more — guys who say they voted for Trump because he’s a ‘good guy’ when they really voted for him because he’s a racist pig, or so-called ‘progressive’ Democrats who believe that Bernie Sanders should have been our candidate in 2016.

Lemme tell you something about that so-called socialist Sanders, okay? Socialism means you’re against private property. It doesn’t mean that you’ll give the kids more time to pay off those student loans they took out to buy some new clothes. If someone wants to send me the copy of any bill that Sanders has ever introduced to abolish private property, I’ll immediately start promoting him for the upcoming Presidential campaign.

In the meantime, call him a liberal, call him whatever you want but don’t call him a socialist, okay? Words have meanings and the word ‘socialist’ means something very specific which used to be an important and beautiful concept first developed by two guys named Engels and Marx, whose importance seems to have diminished in the post-industrial world, if not completely disappeared.

Meanwhile, a good friend this morning sent me an op-ed published yesterday in the Washington Post written by David Ignatius, one of the paper’s in-house blowhards who usually writes about foreign affairs but now is proclaiming that Joe’s the wrong guy…