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My great grandfather and grandfather had to flee their home country because they were socialists and when they got here they were interned for two years and then under surveillance from MI5 for 20 years. Banned from entering the USA...post opened...wire taps. Even their kids were banned from entering the US until the late 90s. This wasn't that many decades ago. I'm really not sure that beyond trade unionism, whether the left has ever really established itself here.