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applegrove

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Mon Sep 29, 2025, 07:53 PM Sep 2025

Also a strong democratic socialist movement may convince

Last edited Mon Sep 29, 2025, 08:57 PM - Edit history (3)

oligarchs and the GOP to temper their policy platform. That is what happened to Canada and the US in the 1930s. Socialism was a threat so the capitalists, kick and screaming, had to move to the center. That is why Trump is going so strongly after Mamdani.

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