Contrary to popular belief among Americans, the Democratic party is very clearly right-wing by global standards. There is a "progressive" fringe (with little in

Contrary to popular belief among Americans, the Democratic party is very clearly right-wing by global standards. There is a "progressive" fringe (with little institutional power) that basically wants what would elsewhere be centrist liberal policies, and an even fringier "leftist" wing (with zero institutional power) that wants the party to essentially be a euro-style Labor party.