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I like this paragraph from Heather Cox Richardson’s recent newsletter.

Greene incorrectly called this program “socialism,” which in fact means government ownership of production, as opposed to the government’s provision of benefits people cannot provide individually, a concept first put into practice in the United States by Abraham Lincoln and later expanded by leadership in both parties. The administration has stood firmly behind the idea—shared by LBJ and FDR, and also by Republicans Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower, among others—that investing in programs that enable working people to prosper is the best way to strengthen the economy.

Article describes how Marjorie Taylor Greene is criticizing the US Presidents’s Build Back Better plan in an attempt to presumably persuade some voters to vote Republican in the next election. The problem is that all of these Government programs are popular with the public.