“They’ll predictably try and go to the “center””
That would be smart, but completely in the opposite direction they have been and are now heading.
True, but the centrist voters they need are abandoning them. Trump’s nationalist agenda, while ridiculed by the conservative establishment, was his key to victory. Those white working class voters that had voted for Democrats, by and large since Reagan’s presidency, went in big numbers to Trump last November. The Democrats need to get some of those voters back and I don’t see that happening because they keep kowtowing to the far left elements of their party, and are not hiding an obvious and growing hostility to whites.
The Congressional Black Caucus (all dem) and Bernie supporters are not about to move to the center. Neither is their foul mouthed DNC chair. Pelosi may take the fall but will be replaced by another far wrong liberal.