This changing ideological environment is another of the “circumstances” shaping the Democratic contest. It reflects not merely the problems that global capitalism has encountered over the past few decades but the passage of time. The stigmatization of left-wing politicians and left-wing ideas dates back to the Cold War, which ended twenty-five years ago. That was before many Sanders supporters were born. In the absence of the Soviet Union and Mao’s China, the world “socialist” doesn’t have the same connotations that it once did.
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