“I see the Democratic Party splitting off into two elements within five years. Bernie opened the Pandoras Box.”
Excellent observation-but also add more permanent shift of white working class Democrats moving to the Republican party.
The old blue collar part of the Democrat party will be a rump party. The Sanders Ocasio-Cortez wing will have support on the east and west coasts and the larger cities in the midwest.
Political realignment may well be underway. Stay tuned.
White working class voters have been leaving the Democrats. There is also a movement away from Democrats, among those who are liberal leaning on some issues, but not full force radical or openly socialist.
It would be nice to see the Democrats split, with the more radical socialist types forming their own party, with the remnants of the old Democrat party left behind. This could only help the Republicans down the road.
The radical types in the liberal/Democrat side of our politics, are getting restless. The Democratic party isn’t liberal or socialist enough for them, and they want to take over. But if that happens, we could see 2020 be a repeat of 1972. Remember in 1972, the radical types of that era got McGovern the presidential nomination, and he lost a major landslide to Nixon. History could repeat itself. All this could pave the way for a comfortable Trump re-election in 2020.