Elected Socail Democrats, (Besides Sanders)

[Pragmatic Conservative]

Who are some current US elected officials that would be considered Socail Democrats. All I can think of would be the few elected officials in the Vermont Progressive Party,  and maybe  Jerry Brown or  Elizabeth Warren.  

Edit Kshama Sawant

[Slow Learner]

Ron Dellums, potentially. (though he may have been to the left of Sanders)

[King of Kensington]

Good question.  It's interesting to see a "liberal vs. social democrat" race in the Democratic Party.

It's often hard to tell because social democracy is tiny and integrated into American liberalism.

[King of Kensington]

Russ Feingold perhaps, if he's elected to the Senate again (the late Paul Wellstone would have also fit in the social democratic camp).

[Antonio the Sixth]

I like Brown, but he's not a Social Democrat by any stretch.

Maybe Shumlin or Dayton could qualify, but I'm not sure.

[Famous Mortimer]

Any Democrat who supports single payer.

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[VPH]

I believe Conyers was part of DSA at one point

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Kshama Sawant isn't a social democrat, she's much farther to the left.

[Kingpoleon]

Al Franken is one, as is Klobuchar to some extent. Does De Blasio, as a super-progressive, qualify?

[Arturo Belano]

Sawant is a democratic socialist, not a social democrat.

[Figueira]

What exactly is the difference between a social democrat and a regular liberal? The line always seemed kind of blurry to me.

[King of Kensington]

"Liberal" in the US includes social democrats, but not all American liberals are social democrats.

[Zioneer]

Kshama Sawant isn't a social democrat, she's much farther to the left.

Isn't she literally a Trotskyist?

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Kshama Sawant isn't a social democrat, she's much farther to the left.

Isn't she literally a Trotskyist?

She's a legitimately evil "Trotskyite socialist".