How to Use democratic socialism in a Sentence

democratic socialism

noun
  • The end of the cold war led also to a withering of democratic socialism.
    Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Nov. 2021
  • For five decades, Bernie Sanders has embraced the label of democratic socialism.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • According to the left’s own sources, democratic socialism will cost $42.5 trillion in its first decade.
    Brian Riedl, Vox, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The other leading progressive in the race, Sanders came under attack from Biden and Bloomberg for his embrace of democratic socialism.
    Steve Peoples, Fortune, 19 Feb. 2020
  • There’s no catchphrase more indelible than the image of Sen. Bernie Sanders arguing the merits of democratic socialism, hair a mess, tie askew.
    Lorraine Ali, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
  • There's no catchphrase more indelible than the image of Sen. Bernie Sanders arguing the merits of democratic socialism, hair a mess, tie askew.
    Lorraine Ali, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2019
  • Even in the midst of a general election, she is outspoken about democratic socialism.
    Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Shaping those terms will be crucial if Sanders is to convince voters that his embrace of democratic socialism isn't a barrier to winning the White House.
    Juana Summers, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • Sanders last spoke in depth about democratic socialism in November 2015.
    Juana Summers, chicagotribune.com, 12 June 2019
  • Sanders, meanwhile, tried to beat back pointed questions about his embrace of democratic socialism and his health following a heart attack last year.
    Michelle L. Price, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2020
  • And while democratic socialism is not the same thing as socialism, that nuance has been glossed over in past Republican attacks -- and, as the post-mortem makes clear, voters don't tend to see that nuance either.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 7 June 2021
  • Contrary to the stereotype of democratic socialism being the province of young millennial urbanites, Ginter was first drawn to it amidst the agricultural crises of the 1980s.
    Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 31 Jan. 2020
  • But that kind of support for the democratic socialism policies can have only so much effect, unless progressives start breaking through in more primaries.
    Dylan Scott, Vox, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Bernie Sanders combined it with a call for democratic socialism, as did Jeremy Corbyn in Britain’s recent general election.
    Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 13 June 2017
  • Bloomberg’s attempt to equate his democratic socialism with communist regimes.
    Philip Elliott, Time, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Claus is only running for the special election, as an independent who espouses the democratic socialism of Bernie Sanders.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • The debate over democratic socialism is part of a larger conversation within the Democratic Party over which candidate is best positioned to take on Trump in the fall.
    Nic Garcia, The Denver Post, 13 June 2019
  • Still, as Danish socialist politician Pelle Dragsted explains, the Nordics (long the heartland of democratic socialism) have seen a resurgence of genuine left-wing parties.
    Ryan Cooper, The Week, 15 Oct. 2021
  • His support for democratic socialism, Medicare for all, and other progressive polices helped set the stage for a major shift within the Democratic Party.
    Lucy Diavolo, Teen Vogue, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Like all forms of oppression, Communism and democratic socialism belong in the dustbin of history.
    Alexander William Salter, National Review, 22 July 2021
  • Her new novel is Want, a brisk first-person saga with a plot that reads both like every millennial Brooklynite’s worst nightmare and a 200-page argument for the necessity of democratic socialism.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 7 July 2020
  • Much of the new energy on the left over the past several years has been about making government bigger and bolder, an ideal driven by a burgeoning movement toward democratic socialism.
    Matthew Yglesias, Vox, 14 Dec. 2018
  • Like other Democratic contenders, Biden has argued that Sanders’ democratic socialism goes further than most Americans are comfortable with, and his policies would cost too much and intrude too far.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 15 Mar. 2020
  • Voters looking for a moderate alternative to Sanders’ democratic socialism were left without a clear choice.
    Magan Crane, Bloomberg.com, 13 May 2020
  • The right’s Pavlovian reaction to Ocasio-Cortez’s budget-busting democratic socialism has trapped it in a comforting haze of commie-fighting nostalgia.
    Will Wilkinson, Vox, 16 Aug. 2018
  • Social Security, public education, roads and highways, the military and most of the infrastructure are not the only things in this nation that are examples of our unique form of democratic socialism.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 23 Dec. 2019
  • To heal our ailing body politic, Dr. Weintrobe, too, prescribes Scandinavian-style democratic socialism.
    Liza Featherstone, The New Republic, 15 Nov. 2021
  • From Hayek, Garza absorbed the notion that democratic socialism will eventually lead to Soviet-style communism.
    Marcela Valdes, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Thus, without additional reforms, single-payer could wind up enabling a massive set of corporate subsidies in the name of, well, democratic socialism.
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 13 July 2018
  • Republicans, meanwhile, are encouraged by the rise of democratic socialism — for a far different reason.
    Samuel Chamberlain, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2018

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