The party has moved demonstrably left in even the last decade.
And it does caucus with non Democrats. You’ve got Bernie and Angus King. There’s a socialist in Virginia too. I think Sinema actually started out that way too, as a Green. Clearly, if a third party candidate can win in the primaries, Democrats are fine supporting them, or at least not running a spoiler.
The key part is winning a primary. If they can’t get the majority of Democrat voters, they aren’t going to come close to winning a general.
The party has moved demonstrably left in even the last decade.
And it does caucus with non Democrats. You’ve got Bernie and Angus King. There’s a socialist in Virginia too. I think Sinema actually started out that way too, as a Green. Clearly, if a third party candidate can win in the primaries, Democrats are fine supporting them, or at least not running a spoiler.
The key part is winning a primary. If they can’t get the majority of Democrat voters, they aren’t going to come close to winning a general.
Being to the right of Reagan is not demonstrably to the left. Bernie is now every bit a neolib POS like the rest of them.