Online Socialists Flock to a Billionaire Governor in Illinois as Aging Icons of the Movement Fade

‘People like JB because he was a Democrat who ran on things that were very popular amongst Democrats, and then he did basically *all* of those things in office.’

AP/John O'Connor
Governor Pritzker speaks at a high school at Springfield, Illinois. AP/John O'Connor

Some self-described socialists perched on the left wing of the Democratic Party have settled on a new hero to replace aging icons like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and that person is the multibillionaire governor of Illinois, J.B. Pritzker.    

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