Since Bernie, the Democrats have engaged in a race to see who can get the furthest Left. Even Bernie has said some of the ideas put forward by the new uber-Left are not workable. He has been lambasted for saying it. Since there is no real substance to the men of the Left, he will stop being critical and instead embrace every new lunacy as it vomits fourth.
Here’s the beauty of what’s happening now, with Gillum and Casio-Cortez as the new leading intellectuals of a bankrupt brain trust. For decades, since at least FDR, but likely further back with Teddy and Woodrow. The Left has moved with glacial incrementalism. Had they kept that up, likely there would be conservative internment and reeducation camps by now. But during the Carter years the frog’s water got turned up to boiling. The frog has jumped out. I suspect that as a result, people are waking up to the real intention of the Left and they too will vote to jump out of the boiling pot come this November.
Incidentally, the Democrats superdelegate system was introduced after Carter won. The Democratic establishment viewed Carter as too radical. The superdelegate system was introduced to restore the successful incremental model of moving towards socialism with glacial slowness. This gave us Bill Clinton and his “triangulation.” When Bill signed the legislation curtailing welfare, he had Cloward and Piven standing behind him as a dog whistle to the Left to let them know this setback was temporary. It worked. But sometime since, the leading lights of the Democratic journey died or lost power. The untutored, unlettered children of socialism are now in charge. Like children everywhere, they want what they want NOW. Not at some point in the future.