Three cheers for the American Legion

By DON C. BRUNELL

Contributor

The 2020 race for the White House is heating. It’s shaping up to be a referendum on America’s market-based economic system. The central question is government or the private sector going to provide our basic products and services?

Last May, a Monmouth University Poll found most Americans say socialism is not compatible with American values, but that only 4-in-10 hold a decidedly negative opinion of it.

Americans are divided into two dominant camps — 29 percent have a positive view of capitalism and a negative view of socialism, and 30 percent who have neutral opin...