Maybe you’ve heard about the socialist candidate running for mayor of New York City. He’s an immigrant from a complicated ethnic background, and his opponents accuse him of being unpatriotic, anti-American, a Communist agent and a supporter of overseas terrorist movements. Some have suggested that electing him mayor will make antisemitic bigotry — already far too widespread in America — much worse, and is likely to fuel a vicious, jingoistic right-wing backlash.

For his part, this insurgent socialist — an articulate and dynamic speaker, and a persistent critic of the Democratic Party’s hypocrisy and cowardice — insists that he represents the finest traditions of American patriotism, as expressed in the Declaration of Independence. His movement, he says, represents the enormous diversity o

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