The Democrat Party did a lot more this month than just torpedo its own incumbent president and ignore the will of 14 million of its voters. Both in process and result, the Democrat establishment has sent its only real connection to its past identity to the trashbin. And in rushing to anoint Joe Biden’s replacement rather than trust even a representative-democracy process, they have gone all-in on a radical new identity, based largely on radical identitarianism and hard-Left progressivism — and all-in on elitism.
That shift began during the Obama presidency, which came to power in the wake of an unpopular war and a financial crisis. However, even then Democrat leadership knew it needed a connection to working-class Americans, and used Joe Biden to bridge that gap. His 2012 convention speech, largely under-appreciated, hearkened back to those populist impulses and party identity…
