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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 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 opinions of both.

With arguably the mos...