I would say a country with food stamps, Medicare, Medicaid, and unemployment insurance is already a socialist country to a large degree. So this obsession with likening socialism to extremism always baffles me. Democrats are socialists, and I don't say that in the hyperbolic contemptuous way that many others do.
Maybe I've gone off on a tangent, but yeah—not sure why socialism is such a dirty word.
None of that is socialism unless you believe that 'anything the government does = socialism', in which case you really have no idea what socialism is.