In politics, what you "advocate for" can (sadly) be less relevant than how you define yourself, and what you present yourself as. And there absolutely are peop

In politics, what you "advocate for" can (sadly) be less relevant than how you define yourself, and what you present yourself as. And there absolutely are people and social movements on the U.S. left who are explicitly self-defining as "socialist". This used to be beyond the pale, and I can very much find it understandable that some people are genuinely scared at seeing it happen, at least as much as I am by the seemingly-meteoric rise of the authoritarian, sexist-chauvinist, anti-Semitic etc. "alt-right" in the other side of the political spectrum.