Mara Liasson is the national political correspondent for NPR. Her reports can be heard regularly on NPR's award-winning newsmagazines Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Liasson provides extensive coverage of politics and policy from Washington, DC - focusing on the White House and Congress - and also reports on political trends beyond the Beltway.
Oh good grief.
"The denunciation of socialism and the attempt to tie the philosophy to Democrats is Trump's and his campaign's attempt to invert the argument that he is an extremist. The president's sluggish approval rating..."
The Democrats are the ones wedding themselves to socialism, which has FAILED every time it's been tried.
Trump's 52% Approval is NOT "sluggish"!!!!
Young Democrats don’t understand the evil of totalitarianism. They crave it.
God help us.
I listen to people like her, and Juan Williams, and even this Stephen Hayes, and I think, “Man, I could do this without lifting a page and reading anything.”
then I realize, that’s exactly what these people do. They blabber without reading anything.
Mara you are an imbecile and you probably have bad breath. Go away.
Mara is typical NPR leftist. From her vantage Marx is centrist. She is worried the jig is up and people realize the Rats are a pack of tyrannical Socialists.
First comes socialism, than comes communism, their true agenda
Nope. President Trump’s “socialism” attack on America’s globalist enemies has its roots in natural law and in scripture. The harm done by socialism and similar jealousy-based views of the world is the reason why God put envy in the Ten Commandments, along with murder, adultery, theft, and perjury. Envy harms the individual who feels envy, it harms the individual who is the target of envy, and it undermines the culture as a whole.
Whether you reject envy because God told us to (and sensible people defer to God’s infinite wisdom) or because natural law and reason tell you that envy is destructive, all reasoning people should reject envy. To actually base your view of the world on such a negative and self-destructive perspective is sad. I don’t like having people steal from me because their envy tells them that I have more and that’s “unfair”, but I could live with the theft of my property. What I cannot accept is the harm that envy does to those who receive what they have not worked for. What I cannot accept is the wealth that I produce being used to destroy the lives of those who are told that they cannot fend for themselves and they need welfare.
National Propaganda Radio has to try to spin the truth that socialism fails every time it is tried.
That's not an inversion strategy, it's the truth. Democrats have already said so themselves.
We have a real time nightmare of socialism's end game going on in Venezuela right now, and people like the author are doing what they can to paper it over.
But she does have one point-the Democrats have to try and fool enough people that Democrats aren't for a green new deal, or abolishing ICE, or a whole host of other Marxiat policies to get elected.
Nice lady. Still an idiot I see.
FRiend, I used to be a long time listener to NPR and tried hard to ignore their left leaning slant in order to get valuable insight on current events.
I gave up on them when DJT was elected.
I got sick of their sarcasm, dishonesty, hypocrisy, and anti-Trump bitch-fits.
I strongly suggest you give up on them, too.
Eff anti-American/Christian/Conservative NPR and their misfit marxist LGBTQ muslim-lov’in news of the weird.
Mara, I have never known you to lie but you pulled off a doozy in that statement.
Are these the same folks who spent the last two years screaming Russia, Russia, Russia?
She took something so simple, that is, President Trump hates socialism, has no time for it, and turned it into a 1M word document which I have not read, but which makes no sense at all except to another lame-brain “progressive”...
which is why I didn’t read it.
“Trump’s ‘Socialism’ Attack On Democrats Has Its Roots In Cold War Fear”
Says the people that think that Trump is a Russian agent.
Wake up, Mara. You’ve been asleep for 30 years. Understand that you have ALWAYS been a dimwit. Commie Rats are screaming “Socialism!!!” at the top of their lungs.
You are either very stupid, which is a distinct possibility, or you are a devious, lying co-conspirator, or maybe a little of both.
Oh Mara, Venezuela felt the same thing i’m sure. But the history of socialism being tried has repeatedly ended with the same results. Lust for power eventually takes over freedoms and liberties equal totalitarianism, misery war, famine, complete destruction of the civil society.
uhh….no, it has to do with the fact that the Democrats are proposing SOCIALISM!
Too obvious for a journ-o-list I guess.