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Whether you consider them cool or dangerous, radical or inept, socialist mayors are not a new phenomenon.
During the early 20th century, the Socialist Party of America was a viable third party,
especially in the West,
part of a broader workers’ movement that ranged from traditional unions to the more radical “Wobblies,” or Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
Stridently red western states were once fertile ground for a brand of socialism centered around worker soli…

How socialism built the reddest states in the West
Dozens of cities in the Mountain West region elected socialists in the early 1900s. The economic conditions that led to their ascendance, their legacy of municipal improvement, and their ultimate dissolution as a movement provide lessons of hope and a warning.