The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
Did you read the article? Or even pay attention to the democratic platform since fdr?
The 2024 record is straightforward: frontline Democrats campaigned largely as moderates. Border and police funding, fentanyl crackdowns, oil drilling permits, law-enforcement endorsements, bipartisan validators.
Not a single one of those Democrats confronted any of the business interests cheating us and violating antitrust laws, from drug companies and health insurance all the way to meat packing companies and other agribusiness.
And those are all fair points about the language they used and constructive about what can be changed, but it doesn’t change the fact that the DNC are not, and have not been for decades, moderates. It’s all just optics.
Did you read the article? Or even pay attention to the democratic platform since fdr?
Not a single one of those Democrats confronted any of the business interests cheating us and violating antitrust laws, from drug companies and health insurance all the way to meat packing companies and other agribusiness.
No they won’t, you can’t expect them to read things their mind disagrees with.
And those are all fair points about the language they used and constructive about what can be changed, but it doesn’t change the fact that the DNC are not, and have not been for decades, moderates. It’s all just optics.
They’ve been moderates the entire time