Lewis George's campaign has been compared to last year's elections of other democratic socialists, such as New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, by supporters and critics alike.
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Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
17 June 2026
Messaging on the right frames democratic socialists as dangerously radical.
What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
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David Williamson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 June 2026
In the years following, Beijing funded or armed fellow communists in Vietnam, North Korea, Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia, causing panic in Washington and other Western capitals as the ideological struggles of the Cold War rippled across Asia.
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