The American Thinker has a long, thorough article on how the alt-left took over the Democratic Party.
The progressive philosophy that the Democratic Party has come to embrace now has its roots less in the values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of individual happiness and more in the tenets of race and class identity, equal outcomes, and an expanding welfare state. Since individuals vary in talent, ability, and motivation and the free market system produces unequal outcomes of success, a core principle of the Democratic Party is now redressing this disparity through the redistribution of wealth.
It’s well worth your time reading.
It covers the major radical highlights:
- Marx & Lenin
- Gramsci
- Frankfurt School & Herbert Marcuse
- Alinsky
- Obama & Hillary
Articles: The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
Frustration with division and gridlock in Washington leads many Americans to impugn both political parties for the current broken and ineffective state of government. There is plenty of blame to go around, but below the surface there has been a quiet revolution going on in only one of the two parties — the Democratic Party — which is the main source of today’s irreconcilable division and moral confusion.