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Thank you. David Correa and Tyler Wall. Out now from Verso Books. Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm

broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. This is the latest installment

in our ongoing series on the left and electoral politics. And today, we're talking about

the Democratic Socialists of America's new electoral strategy. DSA has almost overnight become a serious force on an American socialist left that has

for decades lacked much in the way of serious forces.

One of the major reasons, of course, that the organization's membership roles blew up

was because of Bernie Sanders' historic 2016 run for president, which not only electrified

huge swaths of the country, but reminded the radical left that the point is to win power

and to govern, and that, after years on the margins, we could do so. And that's in part because

many Americans were no longer afraid of the S word, socialism.

Yet there is still, for many good reasons, a lot of skepticism about electoral politics in general

and the Democratic Party very much in particular, inside DSA and across the socialist left.

That is the needle that the new DSA electoral strategy tries to thread.

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