“If Mr. Carville doesn't want to be in my party, the party that I belong to, that Piker, that El-Sayed belongs to, he can start his own party,” Bernie Sanders.
“MY PARTY”? Sanders is an independent who happens to caucus with the democrats in his efforts to coopt the party. Sanders has no party.
Sanders is playing the long game. He figured out long ago that candidates who openly identify with openly socialist and communist parties rarely get elected. He is working to convert the democrat party to that political identity, gradually get voters on board with his political goals. It is a long, patient process. And he’s grooming/counting on AOC to take the party to that point after he is gone. He is more successful than many realize: AOC is actually polling as a serious contender for the dem nomination in the next presidential election.
If dem leadership let his “my party” remark go unchallenged, they are farther down that road than anyone would care to admit. And if they are truly concerned about the direction this interloper is taking them, they had better begin housecleaning YESTERDAY.
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