WSJ: Sanders Loyalists Are Taking Over the Democratic Party State by State

[Mr. Smith]

The Democratic Party is going to take a big step to the left. About time, and it's only fair, given that the Republican Party has moved pretty far to the right recently.

Idk, I'm finding it hard you're going to see a national shift to the left within the party when you have so much resistance from the Clinton people who control it right now. The fact they aren't even willing to make a symbolic gesture to "Bernie-crats" by nominating Keith Ellison as DNC chair shows how much disdain they have for this brand-new coalition.

The Goldwater-Reaganites didn't overtake the Nixon-Ford coalition overnight either ya' know.

[Mr. Smith]

Great in-depth article

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He's already seeing himself as a Goldwater/William Jennings Bryan style figure.

No one KNEW the Democrats would continue to move left after WJB.  No one KNEW the GOP would move right after Goldwater.  Despite the oversimplifying we like to do when looking at political history, either one could have EASILY been flukes and told NOTHING of what was to come.  Same with Sanders.  Maybe his wing dies without him and Democrats become DLCish like some posters think they will ... maybe he IS a Goldwater-type figure ... I think the tentative evidence right now points to the latter, if you have to pick one option or the other.

I wouldn't say it's tentative at this point. All post election analysis, polls, trends, signs, and decisions made by the Democratic leadership all point towards moving the Party leftwards; especially on economic issues.

And yet Perez will probably be the next head of the DNC rather than Ellison or Buttigieg