A common trope of Dem politics holds the party should heed centrists because of their deep insights into swing territory; but most of these members just win in waves then lose when the tide recedes. Letting them steer strategy leads to predictable fiascos. mailchi.mp/crooked.com/bi… 
It’s not that heeding progressives would necessarily be a tremendous boon to Biden’s popularity, but the centrist approach has been a huge drag, all pundit canards about Afghanistan notwithstanding. crooked.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=88…
Contrast to the more recent, more confrontational Biden/Newsom approach to politics and governing, and it seems pretty clear we’d be better off if that had been the party-wide approach all along.
Of course, congressional centrists didn’t have any say in the vaccine requirement or the Newsom campaign, and the big tests for the party—Build Back Better, voting rights, the debt limit—are now upon us.
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