https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/world...e=Homepage

Article talks about how the Labour party is threatening to split as other Euro leftists have split. Many of the same tensions affect the Democrats here.

"...Brexit has proved to be politically lethal. Rather than pitting left against right, or the government against the opposition, it cuts across ideological lines, eating away at the cohesion of Britain’s largest parties, the Conservatives and Labour.

But Labour faces even broader forces.

In recent years, center-left, socialist-leaning parties across Europe have been fragmenting under an onslaught of right-wing populist parties catering to a broad swath of voters — older working classes and younger, urban people, loaded down with student debt....


The right-leaning Sunday Times recently claimed that 150,000 Labour members have already ditched the party over Mr. Corbyn’s position on Brexit, a number the party vigorously denies.

But there is no denying the defection of eight Labour members of Parliament, who left last month to form the Independent Group, citing Mr. Corbyn’s ambivalence over Brexit and his handling of anti-Semitism inside Labour. (Another lawmaker left, too, though that was because he supported Brexit and said he was disaffected by Mr. Corbyn’s leadership.)....

Labour has always been divided between a moderate, internationalist, social democratic Left, and a radical, pacifist anti-imperialist Left.

“But the moderate side of the party has basically nearly always won,” Mr. Ford said. “Corbyn was the first time, probably since the 1930s, that the radical side of the party was in charge, and the rest of the party really doesn’t really like that, especially the members of Parliament....""