Jeff Turrentine is the Culture & Politics columnist at NRDC's onEarth. A former editor at Architectural Digest, he is a frequent contributor to Slate, The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, and other publications.
The label goes to candidates who back endless war and block Medicare for All, while a CNN poll now finds a third of Democrats calling themselves socialists. Scolding them as interlopers plays well with donors and nowhere else.