I am increasingly convinced that the Democrats are facing the same crisis as the Whig party in the 1850s. They are nominally the party of progress, but their material interests are too rooted in the current system. So, they collapse under their own contradictions and a new party that is explicitly progressive (in regard to the primary contradiction of the time) emerges to replace them. The issue of the 1850s was slavery, the issue of the 2020s is capitalism. I would not be surprised to see an explicitly democratic socialist party come to replace the Democrats, made necessary by the fact that the Democratic party is structurally incapable of moving in that direction. Of course, the short term outcome of civil war seems like an inevitable consequence of that (even if we act in the most reformist way possible) so we need to plan accordingly