When’s the last time Democrats failed to triangulate after the convention? Biden moved left and won a record number of votes. Harris moved right and lost.
Biden should make people bearish on left wings policies ability to overcome right wing populism.
Biden moved to the left, and barely won, even tho the entire country totally disapproved of Trumps handling of the most salient issue at the time, COVID.
He has ran the most left wing administration of all time, hired Bernie Sanders and liz warren policy people, was the most pro union, had an incredibly aggressive antitrust, did the child tax credit, spent tons of money ect ect.
and americans hated it. You can say this is all inflation, but the Democratic party has been moving to the left on all this stuff post clinton. and they keep losing more and more working class support.
Harris moderated FAR more than Donald Trump. I don’t think even you are so contrary as to try and argue otherwise.
What was her most radical position? No public option. No suspension of arms sales to Israel. No $15/hour minimum wage. The rootinest, tootinest, shootinest armed forces in the history of human civilization. A bipartisan border deal. Stop me when I get to the pansexual socialism.
Harris moderated mostly in terms of optics. she campaigned with Liz Cheney, she talked about patriotism, about the "lethal fighting force" ect but she mostly avoided taking a position, and starting factional fights with the left,
and offered no explanation for why she suddenly stopped talking about all the stuff she ran on in 2019.
No one had any reason to believe her new stances were the real stances.
Trump at least took a position on a national abortion ban, he took a position on project 2025, and over the course of his 3 campaigns has taken way more positions than Harris that are in active opposition to broad parts of the republican party.
Harris imo split the baby in the worst way, not enough moderation to help and too much moderation that it still pissed off left wing people.
What even is your theory here:
Voters care more about the “threat” of trans kids enjoying afterschool activities with their classmates than they do about the economy….. so we should focus exclusively on the economy?
Unless you’re planning to run to the right of Republicans on this, how exactly does that prevent them from claiming that Democrats put litter boxes in elementary school lavatories for furries and Joe Rogan’s cousin saw one of the furries and the furry looked at him?
There’s nothing substantive here.
Republicans ran a more extreme candidate who moderated less.
If you’re really that bored, go back to arguing about Drake “dominating the culture” or Ozempic abuse or whatever.
The theory is simple;
Democrats have a brand problem, the perception in many places is they are out of touch cultural elites who are more fixated on niche cultural ideas than the nuts and bolts of governing.
In order to combat this they need to do WHAT EVERY MODERATE POLITICIAN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD HAS DONE.
Take strategic moderate positions on salient topics against the extreme wings of their party.
you don't need to move to the right on EVERYTHING and You don't need to move to the right of republicans. you need to moderate on SOME THINGS. and you just need to express mainstream american values, and **** on extremists in your party when they get out of bounds.
Obama said that he was against gay marriage and only was in favour of civil unions in '08 in order to signal cultural moderation.
Obama did a bunch of deficit hawk stuff rhetoric and did Simpson–Bowles commision to singal seriousness on combating inflation.
this is all normal politics that for some reason the democratic party has forgotten.
What you can't do, is just campaign with Liz Cheney, say you own a glock, and take no position on all the far left stuff you supported in 2019. that's clearly not enough.
