When big gets too big, free market capitalism is stifled. The increased concentration of power and wealth undercuts economic freedom. The socialism of FDR’s New Deal very much helped capitalism become more competitive. A big, though lesser known, aspect of Roosevelt’s program was to confront monopoly power and spread economic freedom. In this timely discussion, Gilad Edelman, editor of the Washington Monthly uses the lens of history to ask: Are today’s young, Bernie-inspired leftist intellectuals just New Deal liberals? As newly nominated congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who upset a long-term centrist Democrat) argues: We are witnessing in embryo the  emergence of a new way of approaching left-wing politics. Hardly doctrinaire, victory appears to be possible.