In a recent Washington Post piece, conservative columnist Jim Geraghty guided readers through what I think was a very useful political exercise. Mamdani wants to control the means of production, while Trump wants a controlling interest (as the largest shareholder) in the means of production. As Geraghty’s headline reads, “When Mamdani says it, it’s socialism. This would be another big lurch toward full blown socialism… which would assuredly receive the same party-pass as the previous lurches. It also spared us from the indignity of adopting socialist doctrine in the name of defeating socialists.