Vance Backwards on 'Socialism,' Foreign Labor

Writing at Reason, Billy Binion demolishes the Vice President's recent assertion that socialism "actually means ... that you want to replace American workers with foreign workers, and you want boys to play in girls sports"You can go to the article itself for his quick demolition of the low-hanging fruit at the end of that ridiculous pronouncement.The rest explains why Binion rather charitably labels J.D. Vance an "accidental socialist:"[T]he Trump administration has complained about socialism while subtly embracing it. The government has, for example, taken stakes in dozens of private companies. "Federal ownership of private companies has become routine, and it is happening on the right even as members busily point fingers at the left for its socialism," wrote Reason contributing editor Veronique de Rugy in August. "The DSA [Democratic Socialists of America] at least tells Americans clearly what it wants. The danger on the right is quieter: a government acquiring the means of…