"Its own Socialist Forum likewise noted that Sanders “repeatedly” defined democratic socialism as an updated New Deal and that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invoked Roosevelt’s New Deal in much the same way after her 2018 primary victory, even as the article argued that the New Deal was ultimately insufficient as a socialist program.
Yet both their actual legislative blueprints and the explicit statements of their prominent spokespeople drip with disdain for FDR’s very project—saving capitalism from itself.
The political mask slips further when observing whom the movement elevates."
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