What this means is that there is an evident and ongoing change and synthesis within the Right.
Don't believe me? Look at the the #WalkAway movement, or facebook groups like this: Triggered Millennials
Posted on 07/21/2018 2:21:00 PM PDT by Libloather
There’s no question that the story of the Democratic party right now is about the ascending left. There’s a bumper crop of self-consciously progressive candidates running for office this year, while many relatively non-ideological “Establishment Democrats” are embracing policy positions and political messages long associated with party insurgents. The relative strength of various Democratic factions in Congress won’t be possible to reliably measure until after the midterms. But with the 2020 presidential election cycle soon to begin (the first candidate debates will probably be held about this time next year), it’s looking like progressives may have many more viable options for champions to send up against Donald Trump than do the centrists. That’s news in part because centrists have arguably controlled the presidential wing of the party since George McGovern’s nomination in 1972.
The obvious option for the leaderless elements of the Donkey Party is former Vice President Joe Biden, who has near-universal name identification, a personality and biography that makes him attractive to some 2016 Trump voters, and an issues profile that won’t drive progressives off the ledge. Biden, however, is 75, with two losing presidential candidacies behind him, and doesn’t seem to have much fire in the belly at the moment. At a conference of the centrist Third Way organization in Ohio this week, there was a lot of interest in a Biden candidacy, but talk got more muted when alternatives were discussed.
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The freeloaders don't give a rip who it is just as long as he/she/it has a pulse and a pen.
>>Where Do ‘Centrist’ Democrats Turn in 2020?<<
There are so few the question is hardly worth asking.
Lindsey Graham
The Working Class is stuck with the GOPee #NeverTrump-ers and the Non-Working Classes with The Bern.
I could easily somebody like Kasich attempt to start a movement with Republican ‘Never Trumpers’ and more Centrist Democrats.
Reeducation camp ?
Centrist Democrats? You mean they actually exit?
Exist! My spelling is getting worse!
“Centrist” democrats? Taqiyya
They are Unicorns.
have no strong connection to the Clinton-Obama centrist tradition.
LOL! Clinton & Obama are centrists. This is a battle between the old school masked socialists and the new unmasked socialists.
The masked socialists have always run as centrists to fool the mushy middle low information voter.
We will see how that mushy middle reacts to the new unmasked socialists.
It depends on what happens in the 2018 election. If there is a blue wave, then the progressives will nominate their candidate, probably Elizabeth Warren. If there is no change, or the GOP gains, then the Dems will probably look elsewhere.
They will stay home.
Centrist Democrats??? You’re worried about who Joe Lieberman, the ONLY ONE, will vote for??
“Where Do ‘Centrist’ Democrats Turn in 2020?”
To Trump.
In shocking numbers.
Are they part of the 60% or Democrats Hillary thinks Aren’t Socialists?
The Bringing Our World Egalatarian Lucidity Movement.
What this means is that there is an evident and ongoing change and synthesis within the Right.
Don't believe me? Look at the the #WalkAway movement, or facebook groups like this: Triggered Millennials
“At a conference of the centrist Third Way organization in Ohio this week, there was a lot of interest in a Biden candidacy,..”
“Third way..” sounds like the political version of the Urban Dictionary definition of “the road less traveled.”
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