To be fair , if one can be on the loosing side . He was a great deal more likable and won the VP debate . He was original , had a practically at the time insurmountable task of defending Trumpisms , and blew it out of the water . Even though I disagreed with a lot of his positions . In fact I prefer a Pence running things over Trump winging it . <| sep |> Lmao fucking no . Social democracy is about making the capitalist society an egalitarian , fair society for people of all incomes and origins . That means that social democrats will do major interventions of the free market . That ' s what distinguishes it from every other ideology . Conservatism , neoliberalism , classical liberalism , social liberalism all want to get rid of social democratic regulations of the free market , as they are claimed that they make the market inefficient . It is very much a leftist movement and the only US president to even come close to social democracy in what they tried to achieve was FDR with the New Deal . See how that has withered away .