the dems are in too deep to moderate, if they did they'd lose the Coalition of fags and browns and most whites are gonna stay with the repubs simply because atleast the republicans haven't spent the past 20 years calling them all POS that need to die. the only chance the left has is to hope the culture rapidly shifts back to how it was in 2020 but even then what arguments do they have anymore? the left got everything they ever wanted, had all the power in the world and made everyone's life worse for it. they have literally nothing to run on, no ideas how to make the world "better" they're fucked.
This is what's been very curious to witness: the Democrats refuse to moderate at all. As
@MembersSchoolPizza notes above, Trump dragged the Republicans kicking and screaming to moderate positions which has resulted in quite the political shift. Does it satisfy the hardcore Christians and staunch anti-abortion people? Well, no, it doesn't. However, it has done damage to the Democrats using the 14th Amendment to justify everything, it has done damage to the embedded forever bureaucracy, it has done damage to Chevron deference and alphabet-soup bureaus doing whatever they want, it has resulted in a meaningful Middle East peace process between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and it has taken fiscal conservatism a lot more seriously than any other American political party in the 21st century. Trump's camp being fun and hopeful is icing on the cake. Most people do not want to feel like everything sucks, which is how most Democrats act even when they're king of the hill.
For most of the 21st century, the Republicans came across as toothless, uncaring about their constituents, and basically the political equivalent of a great big fat person who's really sleepy after eating and drinking too much on Thanksgiving night. The Democrats, by comparison, had a major head start: George W. Bush wasn't a great president and started two wars, one of which (Iraq) was totally unnecessary and had terrible consequences all-around. They had a media ready to pounce and a jaded youth ready to vote. Then they had Obama, who centralized federal power and wielded that power with impunity. Whatever anyone wants to say about Obama, he was a talented politician and administrator even if I think his ends were bad for the most part.
Now the Democrats are on the back-foot and it seems like they have no idea what to do even thought the answer is right in front of them: moderate the party platform. The problem, as I see it, is they've written themselves into a corner where they castigated
everything Trump said and made themselves such an anti-Trump party that moderating is a blatant admission that the past 10 years have been a complete waste. All that money, all that time, all that energy for nothing. A serious politician would bite the bullet in order to salvage the party but - as we have seen - the Democrats are not serious politicians. If Trump personally discovered a cure for pancreatic cancer and made it free for the whole world, the Democrats would find a way to attack him for it because they are that petty and gross. Americans are seeing Democrats for what they are.
