As the 2020 Election nears, the Democratic Presidential Candidate Joe Biden has adopted many of Sen. Bernie Sander’s policy platforms. In so doing, the Democrats hope to consolidate a base and unify the Democratic Party. However, it is likely that Biden’s campaign has in fact alienated a large base of moderate Democrats who are increasingly looking at their party in bewilderment. With the announcement of Kamala Harris as his running mate, the platform has now officially adopted more radical politics. This is a somewhat interesting phenomenon as it in some ways mirrors the Republican Party circa 2016, when then upstart candidate Donald Trump ignited a Republican Party schism.

Not only did Trump enter in as a more populist candidate, he was far more liberal in policy and ideas than most of his opponents. As a polarizing figure, his election signified an American populace fed up with an elitist mentality from Capitol Hill, not just in the Democratic Party, but within the Republican Party’s old guard. The fall out resulted in a new and revived Republican Party, more keen to accept liberal ideas, and a growing young conservative movement focused on founding principles of American democracy.

The Democratic Party, since the 2016 election has spent an inordinate amount of time focusing on Donald Trump’s character flaws. He indeed has many. This focus however has highlighted the same glaring problem in the Democratic Party elite as that of the Republican Party Old Guard back in 2016. Namely, wealthy suburbanites who have a notion that they know best and that the majority of other Americans are uneducated and uninformed. This grave error is evident in the political affiliations of most Big Tech companies and in Silicon Valley. It is also evident in Academia and many legal professions. The irony is that the Progressive Democratic movement is pushing a narrative which purports that power, institutionalized racism, and oppression are the reason many minorities in America are suffering. All the while, the majority of these very institutions are controlled by Democratic individuals.

Bernie Sander’s campaign represented these ideas in very clear fashion. Aside from being a thinly veiled Communist platform, or “Democratic Socialist” platform, it decries the elites and calls for a redistribution of wealth and services for the American people. Many Democrats voted in the primary for Joe Biden because he represented a “bulwark” against the more radical elements of the Democratic Party. The far left and progressive ideals however, are now being absorbed by the Biden campaign in an attempt to curry favor with the Bernie supporters. Of course this now leaves a large swathe of classical liberals with a conundrum. Can they support a platform which calls for increasing governmental involvement in people’s lives? Is the federal government supposed to have this much power over state and local governments? What about freedom of speech? Is censorship of “hateful speech” a deliberate undermining of first amendment rights?

The answer lies in the large exodus of liberals who are now increasingly being vocal about the problems with the Postmodernists within the Democratic party. The Walk Away Campaign has left the Democratic Party struggling with its identity and it looks like the party is increasingly being taken over by postmodernists. More and more liberals are leaving or are forcibly pushed out. The result has created an interesting point in history. With a Republican Party now embracing liberal ideas and in fact many times defending liberal ideals, classical liberals have increasingly joined American Independents in the “No Party Preference” category. It is quite possible that as conservatives welcome classical liberals into the Republican Party, we may be witnessing a major party realignment. The Democratic Party may in fact become the Party of Postmodern Socialism. The Republican Party may in fact become the Party of Classical Liberalism and Conservatives. An odd mix to be sure. But then again, it is 2020.