Tectonic Shifts

Michael J. Totten attended the Democrat convention in Philadelphia and writes up for City Journal his interactions with Clinton and Sanders supporters. His point is that while everyone talks about the schism in the Republican Party, the Democrats only just managed to paper over their similar chasm. He concludes:

These young millennial delegates are the rising generation. They preferred Sanders over Clinton by a margin so overwhelming that the word “landslide” doesn’t even begin to describe it.

There’s nothing inevitable in politics, but these delegates, if they take over the Democratic Party in the future, will control the platform and the messaging, and their extreme views, combined with their generation’s startling disregard and even contempt for democratic and broadly liberal principles, will scare the daylights out of moderates in the party and could easily trigger an existential crisis.

If the Democrats crack up after another election cycle or two, however, we’ll look back to the 2016 primary and the convention that followed, when Bernie Sanders and his young revolutionaries nearly toppled an establishment icon, and say that, yes, this was bound to happen—and sooner rather than later.

Perhaps predictions of the impending demise of the GOP have been overdone? I can imagine Sanders' Maoist moonbats driving centrist Democrats out of the party. A fair amount of this happened during the McGovern anti-Vietnam years.