Interesting comparison between W.R. Hearst (the model for Citizen Kane) and the Democrats and Trump dealing with today’s ossified and Quisling led GOP. Some director’s going to make a movie with a thinly veiled Trump character inheriting wealth, building casinos, screwing everything that moves and bragging about it, becoming a glorified game show host, and running for president on the stream of consciousness ticket.
What does ANY of that have to do with socialists?
The cartoon depicts a balky Democratic Party being led unwillingly to a trough, the Socialists of 1907 in that case, by a rich never-run-for-or-served-in-office publicity factory potential (in Hearst’s case) candidate. The Socialist part isn’t relevant. Their policies in 1907 would fit comfortably in the mainstream GOP today. The relevant part is that about 110 years ago a prominent and controversial businessman who built his empire on inherited wealth tried to hijack an old and ossified political party on the basis of personality and publicity. Sound familiar?