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In a country whose leadership class still had soaring dreams of global domination and wealth beyond compare, whose politicians (Republican and Democratic alike) felt obliged to speak of American greatness, they were — and Donald Trump sensed it — the first American declinists. . ..

what really happened to american socialism?

But in 1896 Populists were sabotaged by Democrat William Jennings Bryan, then back-stabbed them in election he lost to Republican, William McKinley.. Gene's American Socialist Party renounced dictatorship of any kind and sustained commitment to Bill of Rights than either Republicans or..

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