Bernie Sanders is currently the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination. He and everyone else knows exactly how the Republicans will attack him if and when he becomes the nominee: old-fashioned red-baiting.
China became communist in name only during the 1980s, the Soviet Union shut its doors in 1991, the Cold War is dead and the 64 percent of Americans under age 50 have no memory of an actual socialist regime. Yet Trump and the GOP have already broadcast their plans to hang the "democratic socialist" label around Sanders' neck.
Whether such archaic fear-mongering — against long-dead adversaries — will be effective even with elderly voters is anyone's guess.