I don’t see much need to discuss this. The Dems are going to go left, left, left out of the crowning disappointment of HRC’s electoral defeat. This ideological momentum is probably going to last for years out of Clinton idolatry.
This guy Perez is quite simply a flaming radical, and that he deputizes Ellison is all that need be observed. This is a party core that will never connect with more than a few splinters the Dem party has traditionally stitched together; and if they do, the nation goes full on Marxist and we’re done. Maybe they get closer to the college-sophomore crowd but they are never going to connect with vast swaths of ordinary Americans. If they somehow manage to kill off all those ordinary Americans or import millions of foreigners who have no allegiance to nor respect for anything resembling the American body of tradition, then so be it. But I don’t see it happening soon. It *could* happen in 20 years, say. Just like American became so sick of Jimmy Carter that the Repubs were in power for 20 years. These things move in cycles and maybe it moves back towards the left in 2036. But this radical crew isn’t going to attract any more folks than it repels except as the older people die off or become statistically outnumbered.
They used to be the working class Union party. But now they are the non-white party driven by identity politics and no unifying message for working Americans and their families. They have become the govt program hand out party. Buy volts. Once you get 50%+ Dependant on Govt then you have a defeat proof majority. Single payer health care and free college re the next steps which go beyond old and poor people