Despite assertions they "won the argument" and symbolic victory laps the fact is that the impeachment was defeated. Without a unifying issue to bind the liberal coalition can they reform around a new platform?
"Another Trump scandal" would bring diminishing returns. Sooner or later the question of what the heirs of the New Deal stand for must be faced when it's time may have passed.
One answer is to go back to the time before the New Deal to a purer form of socialism. That's really the essence of Bernie's appeal.
