Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont and other contemporary American advocates of democratic socialism lean heavily on the democratic part, which is at least in part a matter of marketing.

Wonder Land: Biden has said, ‘I am a capitalist’ and ‘I am not a socialist ... whether the subject is Trump, the Democratic “resistance” or America’s turbulent culture.

While answering a question about socialism, Sanders, a democratic socialist and longtime independent from Vermont, said he was running for the presidency behind the hope of “creating a ...