06-21-2017, 12:38 AM
(06-21-2017, 12:29 AM)BmorePat87 Wrote: Scott Brown was also considered pretty moderate.
I don't know that I'd agree with this, but I get your point.
Quote:Democrats went with a pretty liberal replacement in a very conservative district. Like you said, they should have gone to the middle. These swing voters want to be assured that they're taken care of.
Another direct reflection of the failure of the DNC. Hopefully they learn the necessary lesson soon.
Quote:Apparently some of them saw that in the economic populism of Bernie (which I think ultimately was his appeal to blue dogs, populism not progressivism). Idk, I'm not a political analyst. I just think whichever party can convince the electorate in 2018 that they going to help their wallets the most will win. Half the country is still pissed gay people can marry. A socially progressive agenda isn't winning votes from them.
The Dems have doubled down on what lost them the GE in 2016. Stop pandering to the Evergreen State SJW types, it turns moderates off in droves. The radical left is in danger of subverting the Democratic party, they must resist this at all costs of risk becoming completely irrelevant.
