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Where Do ‘Centrist’ Democrats Turn in 2020?
NY Mag ^ | 7/21/18 | Ed Kilgore

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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KEYWORDS: 2018election; 2020; 2020demprimary; 2020election; aoc; centrist; democrats; edkilgore; election2018; election2020; joebiden; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; qfake; rats; smearmachine
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To: Libloather
Kamala Harris......... while not aggressively ideological, have no strong connection to the Clinton-Obama centrist tradition.

Huh? The woman is a Marxist. That's not "aggressively ideological" ???

41 posted on 07/21/2018 3:23:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: DeFault User

Oh .... Well played sir, exceedingly well played.... that plagiarist quoting another plagiarist.


42 posted on 07/21/2018 3:25:50 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Libloather

Vote GOPe. That’s their only refuge.


43 posted on 07/21/2018 3:25:54 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: Libloather

I do not believe that “moderate/centrist Democrats know that their party is now full on Socialist/Communist, nor are they likely to awake to that fact in 2018 or even 2020. None of this will end well for the nation.


44 posted on 07/21/2018 3:27:35 PM PDT by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: dfwgator

“I could easily somebody like Kasich attempt to start a movement with Republican ‘Never Trumpers’ and more Centrist Democrats.”

If he tries it as a Democrat, he’ll be laughed at. If he tries Third Party, he’ll pull mainly Democrats for two reasons: The first being that the Democrats are so far left now that at least half of their voters don’t even recognize them, and the second being that the Trump supporters are rock-solid behind Trump - they’re not about to jump to someone like Kasich.

End result: Trump gets 45%, Cortez (or whoever they run) gets 35%, and Kasich gets the other 20%. A blowout for Trump.


45 posted on 07/21/2018 3:36:56 PM PDT by BobL (I drive a pick up truck because it makes me feel like a man)
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To: dfwgator

DNC chair Tom Perez has already called an in your face Communist from the Bronx the Future of the Dem Party.

Ocasio-Cortez is today’s Centrist Democrat.


46 posted on 07/21/2018 3:43:42 PM PDT by To-Whose-Benefit? (It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
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To: Libloather

There are no “centrist” Demonicrats. They are all lying murdering traitors.


47 posted on 07/21/2018 3:53:08 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Libloather
Don't laugh, but a dark horse centrist candidate could be Governor Hickenlooper of Colorado. He also has the virtue of not being over 70.

That said, I don't see any centrist getting the nomination. The only real question is how crazy left do they go.

48 posted on 07/21/2018 3:55:11 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Libloather

How about in their graves? Works for me!


49 posted on 07/21/2018 4:07:57 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: joshua c

LOL! Clinton & Obama are centrists. This is a battle between the old school masked socialists and the new unmasked socialists.


Bingo! a Winner!


50 posted on 07/21/2018 4:09:37 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Libloather

51 posted on 07/21/2018 4:11:20 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Libloather

Bookmark


52 posted on 07/21/2018 4:16:59 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: colorado tanker

No laugh. I think it will be Hickenblooper and maybe Kamala harris. Bland sounding white socialist lite and covert communist “person of color”.


53 posted on 07/21/2018 4:25:25 PM PDT by dynachrome (When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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To: freedumb2003

Centrist Democrats can recruit Kacish.


54 posted on 07/21/2018 4:25:59 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Proud member of the DWN party. (Deplorable Wing Nut))
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To: Mariner
To Trump.

In shocking numbers.


This is of course the correct answer.

Because there really are or were plenty of "centrist" Democrats. They are just not very loud compared to the others.

In 2016 they held their noses and voted for Hillary because Trump is Hitler (they thought).

All Trump has to do to win them over is continue not being Hitler for another two years.

Don't want to be overconfident, but I expect a landslide next time.

55 posted on 07/21/2018 4:35:18 PM PDT by Salman (It's not just lack of "civility". The Democratic Party is now a terrorist organization.)
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To: Libloather

The Marxists have spent a while purging “moderates” from the party. Moderate Dems may decide to either stay home or #WalkAway. Unfortunately, many will vote for the Marxists.


56 posted on 07/21/2018 4:40:48 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("It rubs the rainbow on itÂ’s skin or it gets the diversity again!")
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To: PapaBear3625

They purged the Scoop Jackson Democrats a long time ago, they moved to the GOP and became the Neo-Cons.


57 posted on 07/21/2018 4:42:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: wastedyears

“Centrist” Democrats = Masked Socialists


58 posted on 07/21/2018 4:50:53 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives. Do nothing, they win and we lose.)
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To: Libloather

They don’t turn, they #WalkAway.


59 posted on 07/21/2018 5:03:13 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: dynachrome

Hickenlooper stoop up to the craziest anti-oil people here. They won’t forget that.


60 posted on 07/21/2018 5:16:38 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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