Trump's campaign is destroying the republican party maybe the dem party, too
Please, bear with me, it's not yet Monday and this -is- in the end about what the Sanders movement faces in the 3rd Ways response to the republican collapse and chaos.
Politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum, and the triangulating neoliberals hanging out in every election cycle looking to pilfer votes from the opponent by making 'one more tack to the right' are sure to turn, haul up a spinnaker, and race downwind into the opening they see on the right.
We see the harbingers of this on DU in the posters who'd rather ally with the refugee republicans than reconcile with the progressive left. And it seems almost certain that will be the strategy pushed by in-fighters who've never seen a primary opponent they couldn't turn into a permanent political enemy, and who look to the greener grass of the potentially available 'living-room' now appearing on the right.
We live in interesting times, the Democratic Party has established two centers of interest and influence, one on the right and one on the left with institutionalized barriers to commerce between them. The left and right have developed different interests, and are increasingly speaking different languages, and of different opportunity, political courses.
Very interesting times, indeed, for Dem and Republican neoliberals long divided by nominal partisan difference now have an opportunity to come together in common cause to defeat Trump and forge a new alliance.
And one must really wonder what this reunion of these tribes really holds in store. Associations and spheres of orientation based on perceived allies as well as enemies is always the key to modern political behavior.
And it's against the potential anti-social, anti-labor, anti-consumer alliance of that new political order that Sanders Movement will struggle for influence in the democratic party, and against which the ~6800 volunteers will run for elected office as Progressive Dems, and demonstrate themselves, and the progressive left as true heirs of the people's Democratic Party.
