LOL.... That ain't going to happen. The extremists run the show in the democratic party.
https://themessenger.com/opinion/democrats-need-to-learn-how-to-get-excited-about-the-center-left
Since 2016, the Democratic Party’s tent has seen growth fueled by suburban independents, moderates, and disaffected Republicans who have rejected the modern GOP’s embrace of MAGA extremism. At the same time, however, the Democratic Party’s activist class has taken an increasingly leftward turn, embracing left-wing populism and purity politics that alienate the rest of the party. For example, the party’s appeal is diminishing among rural and non-white working-class voters.
The Democratic Party has the potential to once again become a true big tent party, united in support of core liberal values — standing up for democracy, protecting LGBTQ rights, women’s reproductive freedoms and restoring the American dream — but we won’t expand our coalition if we keep applying progressive purity tests to Democrats running in competitive districts and states.
As Democrats gear up for the 2024 election cycle, it’s critical for the party to build grassroots support for center-left and moderate Democrats who have enabled the party’s biggest successes over the past six years and who will ensure that Democrats gain a sustainable majority.
Consider, for example, when a few months ago, Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) made headlines when they voted with Republicans to repeal President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan. Their choice to break with the Democratic Party prompted immediate outrage from progressives. The New Republic called Pérez and Golden “politically inept and practically unimaginative,” while the auto shop that Pérez and her husband run in Portland was reportedly bombarded with negative reviews by ultra-populist trolls. In the end, the Senate never even considered the bill, and even if it had passed the Senate by some miracle, President Biden never would have signed it.
It was an out-of-line response to a vote for a Republican bill that was never going to become law — but the progressive critics that went after Pérez and Golden did appear to send a clear message to other center-left and moderate Democrats: Get in line with left-wing progressives on their economic policies, or we’ll go after you, too.
https://themessenger.com/opinion/democrats-need-to-learn-how-to-get-excited-about-the-center-left
Since 2016, the Democratic Party’s tent has seen growth fueled by suburban independents, moderates, and disaffected Republicans who have rejected the modern GOP’s embrace of MAGA extremism. At the same time, however, the Democratic Party’s activist class has taken an increasingly leftward turn, embracing left-wing populism and purity politics that alienate the rest of the party. For example, the party’s appeal is diminishing among rural and non-white working-class voters.
The Democratic Party has the potential to once again become a true big tent party, united in support of core liberal values — standing up for democracy, protecting LGBTQ rights, women’s reproductive freedoms and restoring the American dream — but we won’t expand our coalition if we keep applying progressive purity tests to Democrats running in competitive districts and states.
As Democrats gear up for the 2024 election cycle, it’s critical for the party to build grassroots support for center-left and moderate Democrats who have enabled the party’s biggest successes over the past six years and who will ensure that Democrats gain a sustainable majority.
Consider, for example, when a few months ago, Reps. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez (D-Wash.) and Jared Golden (D-Maine) made headlines when they voted with Republicans to repeal President Biden’s student loan cancellation plan. Their choice to break with the Democratic Party prompted immediate outrage from progressives. The New Republic called Pérez and Golden “politically inept and practically unimaginative,” while the auto shop that Pérez and her husband run in Portland was reportedly bombarded with negative reviews by ultra-populist trolls. In the end, the Senate never even considered the bill, and even if it had passed the Senate by some miracle, President Biden never would have signed it.
It was an out-of-line response to a vote for a Republican bill that was never going to become law — but the progressive critics that went after Pérez and Golden did appear to send a clear message to other center-left and moderate Democrats: Get in line with left-wing progressives on their economic policies, or we’ll go after you, too.
