Thomas J. Raleigh · Author · Essayist · Raconteur · Est. 1950
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Hey MAGA. What Don’t You Like About Socialism?

Your “dear leader” says that socialism is “an existential threat to individual freedoms and traditional American values”. He claims socialism is “really communism”. “You will lose your home, you lose your apartment”, he says.  He attacks local, and state-level progressive programs as “creeping socialism”…

August 30, 2026 · 1 min read
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