welcome to martha igene blog: Are We Really on the Brink of Electing a Socialist President?

Increasingly, the Democratic party seems to think so. This kind of view has long had a space in the Democratic party — recall Huey Long’s slogan, “Every man a king” — but it seems to be going mainstream. The wacky ideas of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are not limited to the lefty fringe of the House backbench but instead are being endorsed by major presidential candidates.