As an observer from the radical left, I've been paying a bit more attention to the Democratic nomination (although I will likely vote for a third-party candidate since a socialist or communist will never get the Democratic nomination). A lot of American socialists are flipping their shit over Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders (the latter of whom openly identifies as a democratic socialist).
My take on these two? Neither would be likely to get my vote, although Sanders is a bit more likely. Warren trots out a lot of big talk that's very attractive to socialists, liberals and progressives (especially young lefties), but doesn't back it up on issues that are truly important to "my people" (like Israeli-Palestinian conflict, police violence against racial minorities, etc.) She also seems really disingenuous to me in an icky sort of way that I don't know how to articulate.
Sanders has a bit more appeal as the only open socialist in Congress, but suffers from some of the same problems. He's pro-Israel (which is a real problem if he wants to form any kind of coalition between the Democrats and groups like the Greens, Socialist Alternative or DSA) and so far seems to be mostly talk with little action. A lot of radical leftists are also pretty skeptical as to whether he can truly be called a "socialist" or not given his willingness to work with the Democrats (although those arguments mostly consist of "no true Scotsman" fallacies and Marxist circlejerks).
I'm still not sure what the third-party scene is going to be - rumor has it that Jill Stein will run with the Greens again, and Kshama Sawant from Socialist Alternative has been pegged as a possible candidate.
