A New York Times reporter tells Bill Maher that Democratic Socialists “struggle to articulate” how they aren’t communists. When even the Times says it out loud, this is no longer just a right-wing talking point. MAHER: “Two stories from this week, I think, will show you that this has now infected our political discourse. Megan Romer, she is the co-chair of the DSA. She was on David Remnick’s podcast, and she talked about taxing the hell out of them. And he said, what do you mean by that? And she said, well, you know, I don’t really have a solid, and then just dribbled off. And he said, ‘But shouldn’t you? Shouldn’t you be more specific about what taxing the hell means?’ They don’t know anything.” JEREMY PETERS: “By the way, there’s been a slew of interviews just like this where candidates who represent the Democratic Socialists of America have really struggled to articulate how they don’t subscribe to communism, whether or not they really believe in Marxism, and basic facts about how their ideology would help them govern the United States out of this affordability crisis.” “By and large, a lot of these candidates come out of the activist wing of the party... They’re very into reading Karl Marx and left-wing theory, and we’ve seen time and time again that a lot of them just don’t withstand the scrutiny.” The DSA’s Marxist Unity Group caucus states its own goal is to create “a fully liberated classless society. In a word, communism.” When they tell you who they are, believe them.