Oh just having a little fun. But the Democratic Party really has no interest in re-inventing itself. It would rather continuously lose elections to dangerous people than hand over the party infrastructure to the dirty hippie progressive left. And we are talking about people who are really not that radical, at least as far as the spectrum is concerned, but who nevertheless have the gall to suggest trying something a little different than shoveling favors to various sectors of the oligarchy.
After the right wing counterrevolution that really got going in the 80's, the political left wing staged a counterrevolution of its own, so as to maintain the power required to win national elections. After the 30+ years of this re-invention, the party has ceased to grow, and now it continues to harden, its cold dead fingers gripped around the levers of power. The Iron Law of Institutions has found its most refined iteration.
And I'll go ahead and be a contrarian right now and say that the Democratic establishment actually really loves Trump. Here I don't mean "love" in the sense of warm feelings of regard; doubtless they do really "hate" Trump subjectively. But he is also the best thing that could have happened to them. He provides an impetus for their existence, and now they can point to the Republican party with rage, and to Russia and its allies with a touch of dark foreboding, without having to reckon with their own failures.
At the same time, Trump can refer to them as the corrupt, deceitful, and incompetent con artists they are, without irony I might add. They require each other. They love each other.
