2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders is attempting a nothing less than a hostile takeover of Democratic Party [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)one. Most discussion so far has been about the rise of intolerant and repressive left-wing behavior on campus, and journalists have been apparently too busy chatting about flashbacks to the '60s to report this aspect as they should. Sure, it's normal for radical movements to fizzle out, and they probably expected that of the "campus bro" behavior, but Bernie's success from running under the Democratic Party label has made him a national figure.
I'm not worried that Bernie could take over the party, of course, but he could conceivably derail it at a critical time in our nation's history. By selling himself to the unaware as a Democrat, Bernie has avoided not only obscurity but, at least temporarily, the failure that fringe groups typically bring on by rejecting working with others and the "intolerable" compromises to their ideology that would require.
How many Democrats and independents, after all, would be as likely to vote for a member of the Democratic Socialist Party as they would a Democrat?