It has always seemed odd to me that America never had a strong socialist or social democratic party. From a high water mark in the early part of the century, socialism was completely dead and villanized by the 1950s. So what POD would be needed for America to have a strong socialist part like say France, Britain or Spain, or an even more radical one? There are many great tl' on this site about successful socialist revolutions in America, but I am more talking about a world were socialism is part of the American political mainstream. When was this no longer a possibility?
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