Conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans

I stumbled across this article from Vox this afternoon concerning Sen. Sanders's decision to enter the 2020 presidential race. The beginning of the article touches on the issue of seeming "gaps" between the demographics within the Democratic Party that identify as "liberal" or "conservative", and how those terms have not always been inherently tied to a specific party.

This article reminded me of the discussion earlier in the course that involved Nixon identifying as a liberal, and Kennedy identifying as a conservative - labels that today do not seem aligned with their respective political parties. Coming of age in this this political climate has made the idea of conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans almost unthinkable, but this article and the earlier discussion is a reminder that a less polarized political climate is possible.