he EU began. 22/ 29 Jan: French Socialist Party presidential nominee elections If President Francois Hollande decides to run for re-election as the Socialist Party candidate (decision expected Dec 10th) he could be challenged by former Prime Minister Manuel Valls and Economy Minister Arnaud Montebourg. Current s

ners meant putting condoms on cucumbers. That didn’ t work, either. Then John McCain tried calling him a_ “socialist.” Also didn’ t work. Ironically, Socialist Party candidate Norman Thomas ran for president six times, and never won, but every one of his platform planks were eventually adopted by Democrats and _ R

al followings. It is only when the mainstream parties suffer cata- strophic electoral setbacks that illiberal challengers can rush into the breach. The Socialist Party had governed Hungary for much of the period since 1989, but it rapidly lost credibility due 38 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019272 --- PAGE BREAK --- Freedom

owly. The traditionally anticommunist sentiment in Paris’s thirteenth district, populated by former refugees, has all but disappeared. The district’s Socialist Party MP, a former advocate of Taiwan, switched his sympathies to the PRC before leaving politics in 2017. While France has always seen itself as a melting

o the “Fire!’”’-in-a-crowded-theater analogy— Schenck v. United States— involved the prosecution of Charles Schenck, who was the general secretary of the Socialist Party in Philadelphia. In 1917 a jury found Schenck guilty of attempting to cause insubordination among soldiers who had been drafted to fight in the First