The Democrats' Enslavement

There is a strange spectacle unfolding in American politics. The Democratic establishment calculatingly spends its dwindling energies bowing to its growing and increasingly radical left wing that has openly declared its intention to replace it. The Democratic Socialists of America, the streamers, the campus activists, and the insurgent candidates who style themselves as the party's conscience have never hidden their goal. They do not want a seat at the table. They want the whole tent, and they have said so. Yet the establishment responds not with resistance but with flattery, cheerfully murmurating about how big that tent is. That now proverbial tent has become a cage, and the Democrats are in it.