…I’m unsure if the OP is talking about the Democrats, or people on the “actual left.”
Because I don’t see how the “big tent” can survive. There needs to be a reckoning. Decades of malaise at the heart of Democrat institutions with “focus grouped messaging” and kowtowing to the donor class have lead to this.
What I argued back in July:
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I honestly don’t think I was wrong back then. And even if the Democrats did everything I suggested I still think they would have lost. But they would have gone down fighting.
It was simply the wrong strategy. And listening to some of the rumblings since then, and even reading some of the responses here, people think “Harris was too far to the left, and the Democrats need to move more to the right.”
I don’t think the progressives can settle for that. They largely kept quiet during this campaign. But the divide between the progressives and institutional Democrats is getting too deep. In the interest of keeping the big tent together the progressives have made major concessions. And they will be looking at the result of the election and asking themselves: “what was it all for?” They lost the Senate, and the Presidency, and the Supreme Court, and probably the House. The social media infrastructure, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, all captured by the right, and the institutional Democrats have no idea on how to combat it.
There will be a split. That…won’t be good for the next elections. However, I’m not so bold as to assume that there will be “next elections”: not fair and transparent ones anyway. I think the blue states will increasingly be in conflict with the federal government. And the fight between progressives and the institution will largely play out at the local level.