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The Democratic Party Is Radicalizing

The GOP is hardly the only party that is undergoing some alarming tectonic shifts, Peter Wehner : “On every front, the Democratic Party is moving left.” To understand this radicalization, he wrote, look to the ascent of Bernie Sanders—“a self-proclaimed socialist”—and the ideas being embraced by leading members of the party, such as Medicare for all, the Green New

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