Notice how none of this is about what they really think, or what really motivates them. It’s all about how they can falsely characterize themselves.
Yes, the leftists always march like totalitarians they are towards their evil goal while the only thing that changes are the lies and slogans that they sing.
Precisely. It isn't about change, it's about changing posture. The fundamentals will still be hard Left.
This only one of three areas where the Dems have to change and won't. Those three are:
1. Middle and working class jobs. The political class either does not realize how existential those jobs are or hold the middle and working classes in contempt for allowing them to be. Having the media claim that 0bama solved it when he had not was deadly; having them claim that Trump has not improved things when he has is worse.
2. It's the racism, stupid. Not that of any fictional White Supremacists, that was always a stupid made-up story and everybody they're trying to reach knows it. It's their racism. And they deny it exists.
3. Love of country. The Dems are still stuck in that adolescent Left attitude that the country is terrible but that they and they alone know how to turn it into utopia. The country is not terrible. It is a triumph of the human condition. Love it first, improve it next, and respectfully.
It's safe advice to give because absolutely nobody on the Dem side will listen to it. Their loss.