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US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York, and US Senator Ed Markey (R), Democrat of Massachusetts, speak during a press conference to announce Green New Deal legislation to promote clean energy programs outside the US Capitol in Washington on Feb. 7, 2019. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Days after President Donald Trump sounded the alarm about the encroachment of socialism on the American way of life, socialists in Congress unveiled their Green New Deal, a utopian wishlist of control-economy goals sure to make Karl Marx smile from his grave.