One of the reasons candidates like Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Ms. Salazar speak the language of class so fluently is that it’s central to their identities. Today’s young candidates of the left tell a story of personal struggle that meshes with their political vision. But where his ended on a note of incorporation, the cosmopolitan wanderer coming home to America, Ms. Tlaib and Ms. Ocasio-Cortez aren’t interested in that resolution. Arguably the biggest boundary today’s socialists are willing to cross is the two-party system. With their talk of Medicare for All or increasing the minimum wage, these socialist candidates sound like New Deal or Great Society liberals.

Source: New York Times August 24, 2018 15:01 UTC