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Everyone Wants Socialism

Everyone Wants Socialism

But no one will admit it

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Jul 01, 2025
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Trump at a D-Day commemoration in 2019. Image via CBS

by Jeremy Novak

There are two political principles that are taken as gospel these days, each contradictory to the other. And yet, they persist.

One is that Social Security and Medicare are untouchable government programs, and any attempt to reduce them or reform them is political suicide.

The other is th…

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