No, Romney and Cotton aren't national socialists

But there's a reason this narrative keeps coming up.

Two recurring narratives in liberal discourse.

On one hand, we are told that Bernie Sanders, who calls himself a democratic socialist, is not. “His need to defend democratic socialism wasted a lot of time,” Harvey Kaye told The Hill’s Rising earlier this month. “I think the fact is…he is, and should be proudly, a social democrat.” Zach Beauchamp, rehears…