By Dave Lindorff  Does Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprise primary win in Brooklyn, unseating a 10-term Democratic House member, is an earthquake in US politics that opens the door to socialism going mainstream in the US for the first time since the '30s, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. 

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By Dave Lindorff

  Does Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's surprise primary win in Brooklyn, unseating a 10-term Democratic House member, is an earthquake in US politics that opens the door to socialism going mainstream in the US for the first time since the '30s, writes TCBH! journalist Dave Lindorff. 

Authors Website: http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

Authors Bio:

Dave Lindorff, winner of a 2019 "Izzy" Award for Outstanding Independent Journalism from the Park Center for Independent Media in Ithaca, is a founding member of the collectively-owned, journalist-run online newspaper www.thiscantbehappening.net. He is a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006).