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"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires" - John Steinbeck
No.
It never took root because they killed them (Huey Long) and imprisoned them (Eugene Debs). The ones they couldn't kill or imprison were intimidated into silence. (Red Scare, among others.)
Multiple things can be true at once.