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Source: New York Times

5/13/2020

These Young Socialists Think They Have Courage. They Don’t.

by Mitchell Abidor

If Mr. Trump is re-elected, many DSA members could spend the next four years suffering little more than the pangs of political outrage. But millions of less fortunate people would suffer real consequences.