You are right. The Party needs to fix its priorities and particularly moderate on social issues, but that will require standing up to their left wing—who will likely be very happy to tell them to pound sand and will thus leave the Party having to find other potential allies as a replacement.
You are right. The Party needs to fix its priorities and particularly moderate on social issues, but that will require standing up to their left wing—who will likely be very happy to tell them to pound sand and will thus leave the Party having to find other potential allies as a replacement.
I don’t know if that means they can court center-right voters who dislike MAGA or what, but the sad fact is the Dem coalition is more fragmented and less culturally unified than the Right. So if they can’t forge alliances elsewhere, I honestly don’t know what they’re gonna do.
One thing progressives will have to accept is if they want to have any influence policy-wise at all, they can’t have everything they want, no matter how passionate or activist-minded they are. Compromise is necessary to move other shared goals forward. I don’t have high hopes for that right now, but like you say, if Dems lose enough elections (same with the Right), they’ll wake up.
You are right. The Party needs to fix its priorities and particularly moderate on social issues, but that will require standing up to their left wing—who will likely be very happy to tell them to pound sand and will thus leave the Party having to find other potential allies as a replacement.
I don’t know if that means they can court center-right voters who dislike MAGA or what, but the sad fact is the Dem coalition is more fragmented and less culturally unified than the Right. So if they can’t forge alliances elsewhere, I honestly don’t know what they’re gonna do.
One thing progressives will have to accept is if they want to have any influence policy-wise at all, they can’t have everything they want, no matter how passionate or activist-minded they are. Compromise is necessary to move other shared goals forward. I don’t have high hopes for that right now, but like you say, if Dems lose enough elections (same with the Right), they’ll wake up.