The Democratic party has had its own reckoning this year. The electoral street fight between Donald Trump and conservatives has obscured the fact that young Democrats are choosing a 74-year-old democratic socialist with few elected allies to represent their party’s future. It’s a development that has impeded Hillary Clinton’s push for the presidential nomination, yes — but its true meaning and full consequences are likely to manifest only after the current election has passed.
Sanders has walloped Clinton among the under-30 crowd from the get-go this primary season, racking up more than 70 percent of it through March 15, according to an estimate from Tufts University. That dominance continued Tuesday night in Wisconsin: A CNN exit poll found the Vermont senator capturing 82 percent of 18 to 29 year olds.
