New York Times: “The mainstreaming of anger on the left at systemic economic and political conditions has in some ways been a slow train coming, although not apparently one with the kind of force that destroyed the old Republican Party. While Senator Bernie Sanders, the nation’s most famous democratic socialist, made a strong showing during his run for the presidency in 2020, many of the party’s voters considered him too big a risk.”“Today’s populists have burst onto the electoral scene seemingly overnight in large part because of the voting power of Gen Z, the generation born between roughly 1996 and 2012, who are entering adulthood in a difficult new world.”