It's too soon to predict that the Democrats will go the way of the Whigs, but the oldest political party in the world is tripping over its own doctrines; making a public spectacle of its inability to coherently sponsor debates; riven by ideological fissures that seem to be widening; driving away two bedrock constituencies, the white working class and black voters; and hitching itself to a doomed impeachment effort that could cost it dearly next November... Next Thursday's scheduled debate is being boycotted ... because ... the candidates refuse to cross a picket line. DNC chair Tom Perez, a former secretary of labor, is leaning hard on the parties to the strike to settle their differences (do you suspect there may be some quid pro quo promises?), so the squabble between the two constituencies of the Democrats, higher education and left wing labor unions, can end... Nine Democratic presidential candidates have called on the Democratic National Committee to relax its debate standards next year, allowing some lower-polling rivals onto the stage.
And at the end of the convention, there will be a ceremony where all the losers get participation trophies, which they will then smash to protest supremacy, no specific kind, just all kinds. Then they'll all eat lots of meat on private jets and if confronted, will claim they were doing it ironically to point out someone else's hypocrisy.