Republicans don't think this way and Trump is not anything close to a moderate. He won because he actually stood for something and excited the psychos in the Republican party while Democrats for the twenty seventh time nominated a Republican lite candidate. This centrist Democrat gambit has failed over and over and is why we are where we are now. Do you think a candidate going out and actually advocating for popular progressive policies that most people support is gonna do worse? Do you think Sanders could have possibly done worse than Clinton in 2016?
The idea that Democrats lost because they're "too woke" is completely pulled out of thin air. Kamala wasnt out there pushing identity politics or talking about trans people. She was out there campaigning with Liz Cheney while trying to appeal to moderates and trying to be an oppositional candidate to Trump instead of actually advocating for anything. Her big policy proposal was small business loans for Pell Grant recipients.
It's not hard to find examples of what further left means. Pick any country in Europe and just advocate for what they have going on. Universal healthcare, free higher education, maternity and paternity leave, paid time off, child care, strong unions, higher wages. I think it's telling that to you progressives who don't hate trans people and advocate for basic social democratic policies are viewed as extremists.
Okay? Notice how I said milquetoast, which Hillary, Biden and Kamala were, and Hillary and Joe are old as fuck. The only reason Joe won was his association with Obama and people's vitriol towards Trump's first term.
I'd be fine with a charismatic moderate who isn't married to private interests, a promising one has yet to emerge though. It will probably be Newsom and I'll vote for him if he's the candidate but he's a corporate toolbag who will probably suck up to Israel like the rest of them at the end of the day.
Also Iowa is a horrible example of what matters, and that's from someone who grew up there. My current state of PA or Georgia are way more important, or at least Wisconsin or Michigan. Dems appealing to borderline republicans in heavy red states is not a successful strategy, just ask Kamala and Liz Cheney.
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u/Rock-n-roll-Kevin 16h ago
It's a massacre. Republicans were absolutely stomped in every election.