The only people calling him that now are those absurd conservatives who claim he is transforming America into a secular-socialist dystopia.Perhaps the expectations were the problem.
With Sanders' exceeding expectations, the Socialist label was broadened to the entire Democratic Party and appeared in more mainstream venues.
When the Democratic presidential candidates take the debate stage in Las Vegas on Tuesday, the main attraction will be a clash between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont socialist who has defied expectations with his surge in the polls and impressive fundraising haul.
The decision to give France more time, he said, was based on expectations that its socialist president, François Hollande, would push through long-stalled reforms to cut the cost of hiring workers and boost the country's flagging competitiveness.
"We have no clear perspective on how the crisis can lead to a socialist transformation and, to be honest, no real expectation that it will," he wrote in 1978.
He was elected promising change on an ill-defined socialist platform and will now have to manage the soaring expectations of Paraguayans in what by law is a single five-year term.
God – contrary to his expectations – is a woman but, in line with his qualms, has socialist and democratic sympathies.
"The challenge was not a simple one: to meet very high expectations, while being the serene embodiment of the presidential," said a Socialist supporter after the rally.
London's Labour grassroots are reckoned pretty lefty and there was some expectation - including among fellow candidates - that Abbott, a stalwart of the parliamentary socialist campaign group, would be doing better at this stage of the game.
For socialists, the 90 seats they earned on 20D are a major disappointment--tempered by the fact that expectations were even worse during the campaign.
