Plenty of lefties are talking about primary-ing Obama. But “traditional” Democrats? There aren’t any...that horse left the barn in ‘72, after kicking the doors open in ‘68.
Honestly, modern-day RINOs are probably the closest thing we have to old-school Democrats - folks with semi - traditional values who nonetheless believe the Federal government has an important role to play in ameliorating social problems.
I’m NOT saying they’re correct.
Many of them are in Shock. My In-Laws were shocked by ObamaCare and the reduction of services to seniors. My mother a staunch Democrat is chaffing badly at his treatment of Israel.
Old Democratic Congressmen and Senators have been thrown under the bus by the Progressive Socialist wing of the party. But some get re-elected in the conservative states if the conservative is a RINO or very weak.
But many Traditional Democrats have just tuned out. Many of my cousins are this way.
If you look at the 2010 election, you see this tuning out at the local, state and Federal levels otherwise the map would have been much different as the cities hold the electoral power now.
So the city Traditional Democrats have largely tuned out and only the vocal Progressive radicals are the ones you hear so loudly TV and the Media. They speak to the choir, but the rest are snoring in the pews.