Much has been made about the Republican “Civil War” in the last few years, even as the Democratic Party’s tumultuous primary contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders aired that party’s deep divisions for the world to see.
Since January 20, 2017, Democrats have generally found unity in their opposition to President Trump, and have been able to ignore the divide between the moderate and far-left wings of their party. Tuesday’s primaries brought those divisions back to the surface, as the party’s liberal progressives claimed victory in the short term, but laid the ground work for Republican success in the fall.
