It’s a mark of the influence of Bernie Sanders’s first presidential campaign that the American political landscape before he ran looks unrecognizable now. Most of the hundreds of socialists who now hold power across the country were directly inspired by it.
There are no socialist politicians in the United States, including Sanders.
Assuming the Overton window keeps shifting to murderous fascism: soon, all one has to do in politics is to advocate not murdering kittens, to be labeled a socialist by the corporate media
You said it.