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The Socialists Won More Than Just Elections on Tuesday

Five new DSA-backed candidates won House seats, significantly expanding the movement’s presence.

Proposals once considered politically unthinkable are increasingly entering ordinary debate.

The DSA need not control Democrats to make its agenda hard to ignore.

Five new candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America won House seats Tuesday. Together with reelected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., that brings the number of DSA-backed members in the next House of Representatives as of this writing to at least seven.

This marks a significant expansion for a movement whose official program calls for abolishing the Senate, bringing the nation’s largest corporations under public ownership, and replacing the president and Supreme Court with institutions subordinate to Congress.

Perhaps the most consequential development is the DSA’s success in making ideas once considered politically unacceptable increasingly difficult for Democratic leaders to dismiss.

The Overton window, a concept developed by policy researcher Joseph Overton, describes the range of ideas politicians can advocate without being pushed outside the mainstream. That range can shift, and yesterday’s election shows that it most certainly has in recent years. Proposals once considered unthinkable have now become part of ordinary political debate.

In New York, Rep.-elect Claire Valdez campaigned to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement and impose universal rent control. In Pennsylvania, Rep.-elect Chris Rabb advocated universal basic income, free high-speed public transportation, and what he........

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