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Seattle Councilmember Kshama Sawant announced she is not running for reelection and her party, Socialist Alternative, doesn’t appear to be nominating a replacement. While her brand of third-party socialism might leave the council, in her ten years in office, socialist ideas have spread in Democrat circles.
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Sanders is set to give a speech Thursday explaining Democratic socialism to voters. There's a long history of big political speeches designed to take on and neutralize a lingering concern of voters.