Monday, March 28, 2016

Divisions

The MSM has made much of the divisions in the Republican Party. How about we look at the yawning chasm in the Democratic Party?

As ABC News notes, Sanders won by big margins in three western states: WA, AK, HI. The reason: few black voters in these states. Clinton has won those states like SC where many, perhaps most Democrats are African-American.

Sanders is the candidate of white and Asian progressives, Clinton the candidate of black and Hispanic liberals. The interests, the agendas of these two factions - Sanders' progressives vs. Clinton's liberals - have diverged. The SJWs love Sanders, the aggrieved victim groups love Clinton.

This is a political season where both parties' big tents are failing to cover the disparate groups supposedly housed within. Does this split herald a political realignment like that of the Goldwater revolution in the GOP? Unclear at this point, it may.