For decades, “socialist” was a purely pejorative term in mainstream US political debate. The next Democratic presidential candidate, however, could be someone who claims the label as a badge of honour.
Bernie Sanders, the current frontrunner, is a self-described democratic socialist who has sharply differentiated himself from his rivals. “Elizabeth [Warren] has said that she is capitalist through her bones. I’m not,” Sanders recently remarked.
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