The 2016 Republican presidential field is consumed by debates over which candidates are RINOs — the slur directed by party faithful at those liberal GOP-ers considered Republicans In Name Only. On the other end of the spectrum, though, debate is just as hot about what might just be the first SINO in American politics, the first Socialist In Name Only.

At the center of many conversations at the bustling Socialism 2015 convention in Chicago earlier this month was the presidential campaign of self-avowed socialist Bernie Sanders. National political debates over the senator from Vermont have generally focused on whether he is too far to the left, but the question asked instead by the conference goers — which included thousands of socialists, communists, anarchists, Marxists, Social Democrats and sundry others whose politics place them a country mile to the left of the American middle — was whether Sanders is too conservative to warrant their support.

Read the article “Is Bernie Sanders a Socialist in Name Only?” on politico.com.