Posted on 03/06/2025 10:27:20 AM PST by DallasBiff
A group of moderate Democrats quietly gathered in Virginia last month — and hatched a comeback plan to try to distance the party from the far-left and win back the working class by embracing “patriotism.”
Third Way, a centrist-leaning Democratic think tank, put together the soul-searching retreat in Londoun County, a roughly hour drive from Washington, DC, and invited elected leaders, consultants, staffers and others to critically assess the party’s woes
“Activist groups and progressive staffers push unpopular cultural positions, making it seem like Democrats are more extreme than they actually are,” said a summary paper from the retreat and seen by The Post.
“Operatives and campaigns must remember that activist groups exist to promote their single issue and raise money around it, not to make Democrats electable,” the document said
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Headline misleading.
Should had started with”Unnamed Moderate Democrats.......
Which means they are going to fake it to get elected.
Sounds like Project 2025
At least half are radical left and will flee the Dem party and if the GOP were smart, they’d have some money ready to help create a completely separate leftist party to split the Dems.
Democrat Mancin was on Newsmax and said we should respect the President of the U.S.
Former West Virginia senator Joe Manchin said it was “unconscionable” to see Democratic lawmakers protest every facet of the president’s first address to Congress.
Tuesday was President Donald Trump’s first speech to Congress since taking office for the second time. Four senators boycotted the speech altogether. Rep. Al Green (D-TX) was thrown out of the Capitol for loudly interrupting Trump as he spoke. Other Democratic members protested with signs and by wearing black or pink.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/joe-manchin-pleads-with-democrats-to-disagree-with-decorum/ar-AA1AojN0
They can come out against open borders which would help them a lot. It wasn’t too long ago that they supported border security, sure they didn’t actually mean it but they did run on it.
So are they going to stop calling patriots Domestic Terrorists?
Third Way Institute is the charitable arm of Third Way, a lobbying and advocacy organization that advocates for “modern center-left ideas.” Third Way Institute was founded in 2005 and helps fund the tax-exempt work of Third Way. Third Way Institute receives all of Third Way’s online contributions and then makes large grants back to Third Way to fund the advocacy group’s operations.
...Third Way Institute has received at least $4,519,000 of grants from the left-of-center William and Flora Hewlett Foundation since 2016. The Institute has also received a $1,949,150 grant from the left-of-center Gates Foundation; a $1,505,400 grant from the commercial donor-advised fund (DAF) provider Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund; and a $1,060,840 from Arnold Ventures.
Funding
Third Way Institute receives its funding from individual contributions through Democratic Party-aligned passthrough ActBlue, Third Way’s donation website, and foundation grants.
What a Democrat considers “patriotic” is defined by
their anti-American liberalness.......will be a hard sell.
Not really, just look at the facts, the data, the votes.
Not a single Dem voted to protect girls sports, that a fact, that's their votes, they are extreme.
Their comeback plan includes attacking child victims of cancer.
The scowl on the face of Debbie Washerwoman Schultz was classic. I just hope she never changes.
Andrew Yang and big donor John Morgan I recognize.
More names at:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/us/politics/democrats-trump-future.html
“Let’s fool people and pretend we’re patriotic.”
It will work if the media buys in and pushes the lie. It’s my opinion that independents are just democrats who are afraid to admit it in public.
Like asking a Badger to fly.
There’s going to need to be a 3-generation turnover before a majority trusts that Dems have changed their spots.
Their new con job is in the works.
I wonder who they considerthe moderate democrats. I don’t know any. Who has broken party lines and voted with the republicans? Maybe the 10 who voted for censure of Al Green today.
Back to Tony Blair and “third way” stuff. Hooray.
AOC/Biden wing: "We can't let up on pushing towards socialism. Double down and speed up the pace! The people will accept it! You 'moderates' are simply Trotskyites!"
Democratic 'moderates': "That's turning people away from the party! We..."
Slash, CRUNCH! (sound of ice-axes crushing skulls of Democratic 'moderates')
AOC/Biden wing: "And we didn't even have to travel to Mexico!"
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