America’s new revolutionaries show how the left can win | George Monbiot

The remarkable story of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in a New York primary hints at the coming transformation

• The moment 28-year-old socialist beats top-ranking Democrat in congressional primary - video

Even at first sight it is exhilarating. The overthrow of one of the most mainstream and senior Democrats in Congress by a 28-year-old Democratic socialist with a radical programme and one tenth of his funding is, you might think, interesting enough.

But since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary in New York’s 14th district (meaning she will almost certainly enter Congress in November), I’ve been interviewing some of the people who lit the fuse that caused this detonation. What has emerged is just how marginal and improbable their movement was when it began, and how quickly it is now gaining momentum. A revolution has begun in America, and it is time we understood what it means.

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