Lev Nachman, a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine, who focuses on Taiwan, says: “The biggest thing that makes them similar to the Squad is they are progressive in a way that’s so radically different from what we think of when we imagine what a Taiwanese politician looks like. They are the young progressive faces that a lot of Taiwanese have been looking for.”

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