The internal Dem arguments about which way to move are fascinating bc, after 2016, the apparent fluke nature of their loss prevented them from their usual response to defeat — apologetically moving right. washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…
This is why I put my “ACTUALLY” hat on when people say they ran a centrist nominee. Sure, one who had been moved left by activists who dominated the party’s conversation. Biden 2020 ran to the left of Clinton 2016, who ran to the left of Obama 2008, and so on.
Trump won w/o the popular vote in 2016, and there was a widespread idea that Sanders, with his appeal to “blow up the system” voters, would have beaten them. Ironically, it’s after winning the presidency and getting ~51% of popular vote that the Ds will worry about moving left.
*beaten HIM
Schumer is a key character here, a guy who in 10 years went from calling into Michael Savage’s show to bash the Dubai ports deal, to tearfully denouncing the “Muslim ban.”
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