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The Left’s Fantasy World Just Exploded
Sanders did more for socialism than socialism did for Sanders.
Gang’s all here.
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A mirage just disappeared in Michigan — the mirage of a resurgent socialism in the U.S.
The notion that socialism was making a comeback took hold after Senator Bernie Sanders’s 2016 primary campaign. A self-described “democratic socialist” won 45 percent of the vote all told. In the years since then, young Democratic politicians who have also adopted that description have won elections and become media sensations, none more so than Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.