Maryland’s Democratic nominee for governor had a pointed response when asked today if he’s a socialist.
“Not to put too fine a point on it, but do you identify with the term socialist?” Washington Post reporter Erin Cox asked Ben Jealous at a press conference. The Republican incumbent, Larry Hogan, recently called his Democratic challenger a “far-left socialist who wants to increase the state budget by 100 percent.”
“Are you fucking kidding me? Is that a fine enough point?” Jealous responded.
Jealous has been endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), arguably the most well-known democratic socialist in the country. But he doesn’t like the s-word himself, claiming instead to be a “venture capitalist.”
Before lashing out at Cox, Jealous explained why he thinks Hogan is using the socialism label. “Calling me a far-left socialist is what the Tea Party called President Obama. It’s what Barry Goldwater called Martin Luther King,” said Jealous, a former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. “When you see conservatives like Hogan name-calling, you realize that they’re scared—that they’re, frankly, afraid of the change that all of our families need.”
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