I’m not sure you can attribute that to some ‘old guard’ establishment wing of the party when perhaps the loudest proponents of the identity politics is the newe

I’m not sure you can attribute that to some ‘old guard’ establishment wing of the party when perhaps the loudest proponents of the identity politics is the newer wave of Bernie supporters and coastal SJWs. Establishment democrats tend to be more flexible on the identity politics issues, but very conservative about preserving the old New Deal regime and resorting to industrial era pro-labor policies. There’s a strain of pragmatic centrists like Obama, but they tend to be not so great on civil liberties and hawkish on foreign policy. I don’t see the Dem coalition being able to assemble a ‘best of’ from among its various competing visions that doesn’t get impeded by those differences.