Letters

Sanders: Not a Nazi, Just a National Socialist

In “Adventures in National Socialism” (July 6), Kevin D. Williamson conflates Senator Bernie Sanders’s “democratic socialism” with National Socialism, the system of Adolf Hitler. It is disgraceful to use one of history’s most heinous genocides to push a political viewpoint. NR readers should also know that Nazism involved elite monopoly over corporate power, an imperial state, and nationalist, jingoistic fervor. It was not democratic, but it was also not socialist. The kind of social system that Sanders talks about involves improving working conditions and social services so that the benefits of globalization can be available to all people.