All posts tagged "Socialism"

President Donald Trump’s unusual power over U.S. Steel may have set a political trap of his own making just weeks before the crucial midterm elections.

United Steelworkers and U.S. Steel have until Sept. 30 to reach a new contract agreement. Health care costs remain a major sticking point, according to The New Republic’s Timothy Noah, who argued in a Friday analysis that Trump could pay a political price if he refuses to use his power to protect workers.

“Should the Trump administration remain on the sidelines, Democrats will have a powerful issue on which to campaign for working-class midterm votes,” Noah wrote. “This president said he’d protect American workers, they can say, but look how he’s selling steelworkers out! Or: Trump gave U.S. Steel to a foreign corporation and we got nothing in return! Or simply: What a phony!”...

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) refused to answer CNN anchor Kasie Hunt when she pointed out President Donald Trump's policies that seem socialist.

On Thursday, Lawler appeared on CNN ahead of the second night of the GOP midterm convention in Dallas, and Hunt pressed him during an interview on whether Trump's policies contradict attacks by Republicans against socialism. Lawler is notably facing a midterm race himself and is running with Trump's endorsement.

"Congressman, the Republican-controlled House passed a resolution last week condemning socialism in all its forms," Hunt told Lawler. "I just want to put up a list of some of the things that President Donald Trump has pursued at the federal level."...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders isn’t all that angry with capitalism.

He’s fully embracing it these days, actually, which may be increasingly evident to those who paid up to $273.56 to see him discuss his new book, “It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism,” here in the nation’s capital Wednesday night.

An avowed democratic socialist, Sanders has simultaneously berated “1 percenters” — America’s wealthiest people — while Ticketmaster charges fans at least $95.00 a ticket to see the octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate promote his book for Crown Publishing, an imprint of America’s largest publishing house, Penguin Random House. ...

Update: Radio Iowa reports, "A billboard in Mason City that pictured President Obama flanked by Nazi leader Adolph Hitler and communist leader Vladimir Lenin has been papered over this morning."

Only fifty-three percent of Americans think that capitalism is better than socialism.