This should be a lesson to America: If the choice is (incorrectly) perceived to be Trump or Socialism, most Americans will go with Trump.
I think that's obvious to anyone with two working brain-cells (as much as I don't want that to happen).
I honestly don't get the "COMMUNISM BAD" mindset now a days. Nobody sensible is asking for a full communist government where breadlines/etc. happens. But having socialized safety-nets (guaranteed housing, food-on-the-table, healthcare) shouldn't scare folks.
This shit is sensible for the lower-classes, especially. But because "socialism" or "communism" is thrown around, folks get all Joe McCarthy "I'M ONLY
SIXTEEN A CAPITALIST! I'M ONLY A CAPITALIST!!" toward the idea. Which is pretty... cut your nose to spite your face... when
a lot of these folks that vote against it would be the biggest benefits.
People are fucking
dumb*. But I don't necessarily think socialized values are the problem. It's
educating voters that is.
You're right in (my limited experience of Owen Jones blitzing my Twitter timeline of US liberals during UK hours) the sense that Jeremy did jack-shit. I mean, compared to Bernie (or Warren *retch*) he certainly didn't do anything beyond "oh well, I'm against Brexit!" which is a Hillary move.
*
Probably why I'm a misanthrope