Theodoric writes:
The US is a socialist country. A poor example of one, but many of our institutions are socialist already.
It makes no diference whether the US "is" socialist or not. The point is that the
word "socialist" is enough to get some people almost in a lynching mood. To those people, a candidate self-identifying as "socialist" - whether he really "is" socialist or not - is almost certain to drive some people to vote for anybody but him, isn't it?
I may not have any "evidence" for what's blatantly obvious but that doesn't stop it from being blatantly obvious. You and I both know that people will bend over to pick up a dollar that they find on the street, whether there are any scholarly studies on the subject or not.
Theodoric writes:
This is an argument the right is trying to use but it is only getting traction among a small population.
So your answer is, "Yes, among a small (segment of the) population," not, "No."
Theodoric writes:
Not sure how you can show that as happening.
You just did.