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‘Socialist’ is no longer quite such a dirty word in the US | Kenan Malik

The victories of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Andrew Gillum are shaking up a moribund, arrogant Democratic party

For years, European radicals greeted the idea of a “left” in America with a snort. After all, the Democratic party was certainly not social democratic in European terms. A figure such as Barack Obama, a symbol of progressive politics and a man whose presidential victories were transformative in American terms, would not seem too out of place on the liberal wing of the British Tory party.

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