New York progressive star among subjects of The Rebels, survey of the modern US left by Joshua Green
Donald Trump famously compared the New York Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Eva Perón, the Argentinian first lady known as Evita. But a new book reveals that when the young Latino left-winger burst onto the US political scene in 2018, one US labour leader made perhaps a more telling comparison – to Bruce Springsteen.
“I was floored,” Michael Podhorzer, then political director of the AFL-CIO, told the author Joshua Green. “The best comparison I can make is to the famous Jon Landau line: ‘I’ve seen rock’n’roll’s future and its name is Bruce Springsteen.’”
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