After 2024, the Dems split between those who thought the party needed to moderate and those who thought it needed to radicalize. Did the Dems lose because they alienated most of the country or because they didn’t go far enough? In the 2028 pre-elections, Newsom became a spokesman for the first view (even though he’s anything but a moderate) and Bernie Sanders and AOC (predictably) help rallies urging greater radicalism.

The DNC elections became Ground Zero for leftist insanity with even Dems cringing at what they saw there.

The candidates had just gotten through their opening statements when the disruptions began. A young woman in a Sunrise Movement T-shirt stood up and began shouting, “I am terrified!” as she was dragged out by security. Numerous other protests followed, with shouts of “climate emergency!” and “fossil fuel money!” culminating in a group trying to unfurl a banner in front of the stage.

“The youth of this nation are crying for their voices to be heard,” said chair candidate Quintessa Hathaway, a former Arkansas congressional candidate who had chosen to sing rather than speak her opening statement.

With the protests finally exhausted, the forum got under way in earnest. MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart asked those who believed racism and misogyny contributed to Harris’s defeat to raise their hands; all the hands on the stage, as well as most in the audience, shot up. “That’s good,” Capehart said, “you all pass.”

Later in the program, an audience member stood up to lament that there was only one at-large seat set aside for a transgender person, and called on the candidates to add another seat and for “making sure those appointments reflect the gender and ethnic diversity of the transgender community.” Only one candidate raised his hand to indicate he would not make such a commitment.

The outcome was at best a compromise between the two wings and now the DNC is trying to oust some of the crazies, notably David Hogg, after he tried to spearhead an initiative to oust incumbents in favor of radicals.

A Democratic National Committee panel on Monday recommended a new election for the post held by Vice Chair David Hogg, whose effort to challenge “asleep at the wheel” Democrats sparked a firestorm in the national party.

While the panel’s move was based on a procedural complaint unrelated to the broader controversy surrounding Hogg, the committee is giving DNC members another option to squeeze the vice chair after he promised to spend $20 million in Democratic primaries against incumbent House members in safe blue districts.

First up, the sacrificial Hogg.

Hogg, who wants to be AOC, but is no AOC, and an American Greta Thunberg, which he might be, was a ridiculous figure, but this could heat up the postponed Dem civil war. For now the Dems have urged unity against Trump, and what that really means is they hope to avoid an internal reckoning and instead ride a backlash to victory in 2026, but if the Left pushes hard enough the reckoning may happen anyway, and no matter what the approval ratings of the administration are, voters really hate the Democrats and the party is really going to have to come up with a unified agenda to run on.

Right now all they have is hating Trump.