Auchter scoffs at the notion that a progressive will put off mainstream voters, and it should be noted that Abdul El-Sayed, Michigan’s Democratic candidate for the Senate, is not campaigning as a Democratic Socialist. It may be more relevant to ask if endorsements from Bernie Sanders and AOC are good things or bad things. That linked article suggests that, even with Dear Leader’s imprimatur, you do well to keep a clean record in the ongoing maelstrom. But it depends on nobody pointing out that a history major would recognize the hysteria that gripped us in the 1920s and 1950s, the last two times we had a really good Red Scare going on. And Duquette takes the “less is more” approach, mocking the toop and tying it into one of Dear Leader’s misogynistic insults.