From the left: Dems No-Risk Strategy Will Fail

After Kamala Harris’ defeat, The Atlantic’s Marc Novicoff figured , “surely more Democrats would start coming out of the woodwork to advertise their moderate cultural views, and the idea of a radical Democratic Party would begin to fade away.”

But no: Even those who make the argument that “the party has weakened itself by being out of touch” “haven’t followed it to its natural conclusion by moving significantly rightward on any major issue.”

Most leading Dems “seem focused on adjustments to the party’s communication style, rather than to its substantive positions.”

The “fear of backlash” from those espousing “radical left-wing cultural views” results in “tactical silence.”

Sorry: Choosing a strategy that “offends no one and incurs littl

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