By the way, I’ve tried telling Republicans that calling everything they don’t like “Socialist” is probably partially responsible for the rise in positive associations with the word “Socialist” in Millennials.  

This isn’t really a left-wing limited phenomena.  It’s probably a kind of collective action problem in which individuals and individual uses of the word can accrue benefit, even though long-term it wears out the meaning.

So Millennials are associating “Socialism” with high-functioning welfare capitalist states, rather than say, the Soviet Union, or less dramatically, Venezeula.

So I get to be cassandra.png to multiple groups.