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    Commentary: Americans like socialism now

    by Harold Meyerson, Los Angeles Times Jul 24, 2018 3 minutes

    American socialism is having one hot summer. In New York, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, running as a Democratic Socialist, upset Rep. Joe Crowley, who was favored to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi as leader of the House Democrats, in the Democratic primary. Democratic candidate for governor Cynthia Nixon, running in the September primary against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, has proclaimed herself a Democratic Socialist too.

    Its numbers surging after Ocasio-Cortez's stunning victory, the Democratic Socialists of America now claims 45,000 members. That's a

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