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Senior ideas writer @nytimes. Former NYT National Editor. Author of "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965.”
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How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party

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By Jia Lynn Yang Verified
| The New York Times Verified
The word “socialist” has a unique ability in American politics to provoke high emotion. President Trump warned last month that the recent success of democratic socialist politicians posed “the most serious threat to our country since its existence.” He compared it to “an uncontrollable form of cancer” that will eventually destroy the country. And that’s just the Republican response.
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How American Socialism Changed, and Stormed the Democratic Party

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By Jia Lynn Yang Verified
| Reader Supported News
The movement was better at critiquing the system than reshaping it. But it has never had this much mainstream political power. The word “socialist” has a unique ability in American politics to provoke high emotion. President Trump warned last month that the recent success of democratic socialist politicians posed “the most serious threat to our country since its existence.” He compared it to “an uncontrollable form of cancer” that will eventually destroy the country.
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Frederick Douglass' Demand for Citizenship Is Still Radical

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By Jia Lynn Yang Verified
| Breaking One
"From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman, until he should cease to be merely a freedman, and should become a citizen." -- Frederick Douglass, 1881 -- In the Edward P. Jones historical novel, "The Known World," there is a harrowing scene in which a freed slave named Augustus Townsend encounters a group of patrolmen one night on the dark country roads of antebellum Virginia. They are on the lookout for runaway slaves.
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