'I want you to see what a s***show America is': Frank Luntz warns the UK

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16. I have been discussing this

It is still working rather well because Republicans still use one of the main insults created in this document created by Gingrich and Luntz... but I still constantly call Democrats either socialist or communist and first thing that Democrats do is they jump to try to defend socialism

My response is always to point out that these social programs that Democrats tried to create were actually first created in Europe by European conservatives in the Christian Democratic party applying Christian principles to Democratic Government...
This is actually true and it diffuses the constant Republican attacks on Democrats as being socialist. You can go back to the history of all of these social programs in Continental Europe and you're always going to find out that it was Christian Democratic politicians who started them... of course Mitt Romney started his own health insurance mandate by copying European Christian Democratic model and Obama followed suit with Obamacare Republicans still call it socialism and Democrats respond by trying to defend socialism...

It would actually be a better strategy to point out that all of this stuff was created by European Christians trying to create a more Christian Society than trying to defend socialism...

It doesn't matter how factual all of this is because there is some wiggle room in the role social democrats played, but by and large I have use this strategy during a debate and it has left conservatives flummoxed...

When you point out that the concept of social security was created by Otto von Bismarck one of the most conservative figures of the 19th century they just don't know how to respond