She's not even radical. She's advocating to stop backsliding away from and instead embrace the principles of the New Deal. The signature policy of the most popular president in American history. A policy(set of policies actually) that ushered in a half a century of economic stability and steady growth, which grew the middle class.

The US lifted more people out of poverty than any other nation. Now China holds the record of raising more people out of poverty faster than any nation ever.