The news is trying to downplay this since he offered the number two job to Ellison.
I don't know what will happen to the Democratic Party. There's no room for moderates or conservatives. Believe it or not, I've always been a member of the Democratic Party, although I'm also much more conservative than most of the Democrats I know. Comes from having joined in the 70's.
I might finally just quit altogether and make it official.
But it seems that while visibly the party is going further left, it doesn't represent the voice of the majority of the party. Both major parties have the largest portion of their party - in the middle.
That should surprise no one.
I believe it. You said so YEARS ago, your party affiliation.
Obama's losses wiped out all the moderates, all the people who had to appeal to at least some Republicans. This concentrates and intensifies positions. Behind the scenes this has made way for folks like Perez in many of the function, non glamorous positions, the people who do the work. So, the party is just lopsided, really bad. And, honestly, NOW is the time for someone to come in and say:
"The Republicans are insane; they elected Donald Trump, so, that's no good. The Democrats are all messed up, losing everything for 8 years under Obama and Clinton." ...and go from there. The GOP struggled to come to grips with Dubbya's enormous list of deep failures and, while being handed wins by Obama and the D's, never staked anything out moving forward. The party drifted back into power and, because there are no principles, because it didn't do anything more than get out of the way, that left the door wide open for Trump.
The D's have the same problem; no one will state the emperor has no cloths on. No one will speak truth to the Obama power. So, will they start to win seats back just because of Trump? I doubt it because he is NOT what they paint him as. Once he starts getting big bucks spent on infrastructure, isn't executing people in the streets, IS helping the economy, the argument goes away. There WAS argument against Obama; the ACA.
So, my guess is that when there are no real gains in '18, maybe that's when people start to push Obama out?