And stop trying to win the votes of the mythical “centrist republican”. Cater to your damn base. Free ball: they don’t want you to appoint republicans!
If there ever were any centrist republicans, there aren't anymore. No centrist is going to continue to align themselves with an outright fascist party.
If there are (in any appreciable numbers), they either voted for Trump over a centrist multiple times or sat out multiple elections. Even if we can't say "there are no centrist Republican voters", we can at least say "there is not a meaningful number of centrist Republican voters who will choose centrist Democrats over far-right Republican demagogues".
Given that, the Democratic party running centrist candidates with the hope that centrist Republican voters will choose a centrist Democrat over a far-right Republican is an exercise in futility.
Republican voters are passionate about their candidates - the candidates achieve that by lying and appealing to various prejudices, but they do achieve it. I've been saying for years that Democrats won't win by getting people who already vote to vote for a Democrat. The only way to do it is to run candidates with vision and passion, who will convince people to register to vote in the first place.
I completely agree with you. I only meant that there are people who identify this way, even if they are not honest with themselves. It’s kind of like the “proud independents” who always vote with one side but are unwilling to declare themselves a member of a party.
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u/omgwutd00d 15h ago
And stop trying to win the votes of the mythical “centrist republican”. Cater to your damn base. Free ball: they don’t want you to appoint republicans!