Meet the one real socialist running for president (no, it's not Bernie Sanders) by alexnazaryan
WASHINGTON — Some presidential campaigns begin with theatrical escalator rides; others, with speeches in windowless rooms. There is, to be sure, an escalator in the building of the National Press Club, where socialist Jerome Segal announced on Wednesday that he would seek the White House, located just a couple of blocks away. But if Segal rode it, in Trumpian fashion, cameras were not there to record the occasion. Nor did he have Melania Trump by his side.
All this was taking place just steps from the seat of American imperial might, seemingly adding evidence to the argument of Trump and his supporters that socialism is on the rise — and must be countered appropriately. Segal is the founder of Bread and Roses, a party that calls itself “the first democratic socialist party to be established in the United States in the last four decades,” which is probably why Fox News took note of its founding.
Story continuesThrongs of woke millennials did not pack Segal’s announcement presser. In fact, the room was mostly empty. He did not trend on social media. While Americans may be at least partially amenable to progressive ideas when introduced by a young, media-savvy figure like Ocasio-Cortez, it appears the real thing has little traction in the United States.
Segal’s candidacy could be dismissed as a fringe political ploy, but he wants to make socialism — real socialism — a centerpiece of the debate, and if he gets a centrist candidate like, say, former Vice President Joe Biden to make concessions to his ideas, he has won a kind of victory. In 2018, Segal challenged Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland. He failed to defeat him, but his new party, Bread and Roses, earned 10,000 petition signatures, which qualifies it for the 2020 and 2022 elections. Segal, who calls himself “Maryland’s Bernie,” wants to push the Democratic Party to the left. If anything, he thinks Sanders is not radical enough, at least not as a presidential candidate. Nobody is. That’s why he’s taken it upon himself to run.
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