“'America will never be a socialist country,' President Trump vowed in his last State of the Union address, a line he has repeated to crowds at his rallies. The sentiment has been echoed by other conservative politicians, who often frame the choice as 'socialism vs. freedom,'" says columnist Errol Louis. "That old-fashioned red-baiting approach, familiar to those of us who lived through the Cold War, doesn’t seem to be working these days."