The perpetual advice to Democrats is that moving rightward will solve all their problems. But look where the party is at the moment: already embracing Republican affect and policies, yet still losing.
Conventional wisdom among dems since the 90s has been triangulation; all voters vote for the candidate closest to their ideology, so if you can get the republican to move as far right as possible, say Hitler, then triangulate your positions to be one iota left of the republican, say 99% Hitler, then everyone left of 99.5% Hitler has to vote for you.
In practice, this only wins elections if the republican is more incompetent than Donald Trump. But democrats who believe this get tons of money from donors, and its apoealimg to the sort of class position who can afford to become congressional staffers.
There are only two parties in that stupid place, what the hell would they think being diet right would do?
Conventional wisdom among dems since the 90s has been triangulation; all voters vote for the candidate closest to their ideology, so if you can get the republican to move as far right as possible, say Hitler, then triangulate your positions to be one iota left of the republican, say 99% Hitler, then everyone left of 99.5% Hitler has to vote for you.
In practice, this only wins elections if the republican is more incompetent than Donald Trump. But democrats who believe this get tons of money from donors, and its apoealimg to the sort of class position who can afford to become congressional staffers.
Make them money