The Democratic Party’s civil war is set to heat up as the moderate wing of the party is working desperately to prevent the Democratic Socialist faction from seizing more influence. The moderate establishment is working on a plan to counteract the advance of its left flank, according to the New York Times. Some strategists urgently pressed to adopt a sharper edge to tap into the fury among Democratic voters that was felling its centrist candidates. Others wanted to attack democratic socialism, undercutting a budding movement now set to have far more than a toehold in the next Congress. They are looking for something different at a time when the Democrat establishment is hellbent on maintaining the status quo.