- Georgia's Senate runoffs show Democrats need a new message on socialism. Here's what to do. — Republicans have called Democrats "socialist" since the New Deal. What they're really deriding is our system of checks and balances, applied to the market. https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/georgia-s-senate-runoffs-show-democrats-need-new-message-socialism-ncna1250075 102 comments politics