The Democratic Party’s moderates have lots of complaints but no solutions. jonathanchait writes
It has become fashionable for progressives to dismiss the importance, or even the existence, of voters who have politically moderate or cross-pressured beliefs. The evidence is fairly clear that adopting unpopular positions has costs for parties and candidates.
Wild’s formula is to combine completely orthodox progressive positions on social issues with assurances that she fits right in with the C-suite. This is also the formulation Kyrsten Sinema has adopted. Sinema hangs out with executives, fights hard to protect them from taxes, and says things like, “Never drink cheap wine.”
The centrists, including Gottheimer, have focused their complaints on the fact that the bipartisan infrastructure bill did not pass the House quickly enough. Al From, the once-powerful head of the Democratic Leadership Council, tells Zengerle: Stephanie Murphy, another prominent centrist, complains that the party’s campaign arm is favoring candidates who support the party’s domestic policy agenda. This strikes Murphy as unfair:
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