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Why Chait and Yglesias are arguing about the Sanders left

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Carl Beijer
Dec 29, 2018
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Friday morning, Jonathan Chait wrote that

Sanders attracts the intense support of a small left-wing intellectual vanguard who see American politics in fundamentally terms than most Democrats do. The primary struggle in American politics as they see it is not between liberalism and conservatism, but between socialism and capitalism.

Within hours, Matt Ygle…

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