I will confidently say it is not over. When I was born, there was not a snowball chance in Hell that a socialist could ever make it this far on a national platform. We were scared of the word, we hated it, and it invoked images of the American enemy, the U.S.S.R. (even just the letters seem like such a mouthful now) We have went from that to having a Socialist being able to keep one of the predominate political family runners on her feet, giving her a run for her money, and not making it easy on her. And if Socialism is being brought further into the mainstream by academics and millennials today, do you think it will DOA in the next election? Do you think the next generation will declare it over? My generation is disappointingly conservative, albeit more liberal than our parents, and this millennial generation is more liberal than mine. Do you think the unnamed and unrecognized "Generation Z," whose parents predominately only know of the Cold War through history, are going to have the same aversions towards socialism that even those born towards the latter-portion of the Cold War knew? I was born in the mid-80s, and I even I remember "socialism" and "communist" and being words of the strongest profanity and an accusation that would ruin someone. My niece was born in the mid-90s, and to them the fall of the Berlin Wall is only history they can read about because they weren't around to experience the shock of it and the "proclamation" that socialism and communism are failed and defeated (I actually felt kinda old at school admitting I was born when Reagan was in office, in a time before the Internet). Her generation does not know that, and the upcoming "Gen-Z" is even further removed.