"Democrats channeled all the energy from Donald Trump’s denial of the 2020 election result and the riot he fomented at the Capitol into a failed effort to move a long-desired laundry list of election-related reforms bearing almost no relationship to the vulnerabilities exposed by the 2020 election result."
"Democrats channeled all the energy from Donald Trump’s denial of the 2020 election result and the riot he fomented at the Capitol into a failed effort to move a long-desired laundry list of election-related reforms bearing almost no relationship to the vulnerabilities exposed by the 2020 election result."
This sums it up, as well as leading directly to your third point--not only is there no apparent interest in attracting swing voters, there seems to be the opposite, namely, a willingness to repel them with ideas so far to the left that even moderate democrats (let alone moderate republicans and independents) are turned off...
"Democrats channeled all the energy from Donald Trump’s denial of the 2020 election result and the riot he fomented at the Capitol into a failed effort to move a long-desired laundry list of election-related reforms bearing almost no relationship to the vulnerabilities exposed by the 2020 election result."
This sums it up, as well as leading directly to your third point--not only is there no apparent interest in attracting swing voters, there seems to be the opposite, namely, a willingness to repel them with ideas so far to the left that even moderate democrats (let alone moderate republicans and independents) are turned off...