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Posted on 12/14/2025 2:02:59 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Most establishment Democrats believe the party’s 2028 nominee needs to tack to the center, especially on social issues, to maximize the party’s chance to win. That looks sound on paper, but implementing it faces a serious obstacle: the party’s primary voters.
Democratic Party primary voters are significantly more progressive and left-leaning than they were even in 2008. That fact was driven home in two high-profile mayoral races, in New York City and Seattle, where little-known progressive challengers easily defeated well-known establishment figures.
Those contests are especially significant when one applies those results to the method by which Democrats traditionally apportion convention delegates. Extrapolating from those victories—and other high-profile progressive versus establishment races—suggests there’s a real chance the party could nominate someone who leans into, not away from, the hard progressive zeitgeist.
The Democrats’ intra-party shift leftward remains underappreciated. In the 2008 primaries, Hillary Clinton won the primaries in large part because only 47 percent of the voters were liberal; her margin came from the 53 percent who said they were moderate or conservative. (She lost the nomination because Barack Obama crushed her in the party’s progressive-dominated caucuses, winning 13 of 14 from Super Tuesday on.)
By 2020, however, a supermajority of Democratic primary voters were either liberal or very liberal. Exit polls for most states showed between 60 and 65 percent of voters were some variety of liberal. Only a few Southern states, such as Oklahoma and Mississippi, were as centrist in their ideological orientation as the national party had been just twelve years earlier.
Democrats since then have moved even further to the left. Gallup polling has found that the share of Democrats calling themselves either liberal or very liberal hit record highs in 2024. This is particularly the case on social issues. Sixty-nine...
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In democRAT speak “progressive” actually means regressive.
Question is will anyone of the Fetterman style of Democrats gain enough popularity to overcome the surging, excited, fanatical socialist fans who are winning elections.
So far anyone moderate is laughed off the ballot and made to feel like a dinosaur. Pelosi and Schumer are written off for not being AOC enough. And cowardly people of low character like Hochul are pretending to be close pals of Mamdani and the Squad.
Re escape;
Why would they? They’re all various levels of asshole communist anyway.
That’s the fallacy - that ANY of them are still moderate or middle of the road.
Theyre the domestic enemy of our time, and we shouldn’t try to pretend otherwise.
YEP.
If anyone is still a voting Democrat, they are lost sheep so they’ll accept anything their owners/slave masters push on them.
And if Fetterman was serious, he would cross the aisle and switch to help us.
The future of America depends more on Republicans escaping the vise grip of RINO primary voters.
Why would the DEMs toss them aside or distance themselves? They did to a small degree in 2024, and it cost them in the elections.
Why would they?
Democrats Love Them There Marxism to death.
There=Their
They will continue just as they have. Henry got an easy little article out of it though.
We’re the ones who should worry. Adolf got elected didn’t he?
Fetterman didn't become a "Fetterman Democrat" until after he was elected.
Much like Kyrsten Sinema, he campaigned as a far left progressive and then took the mask off after he was safely in office.
“They will lie, cheat, and steal”
In the 2020 GA Dem primary the losing candidates made the same acusations that MAGA made in Nov 2020. But MAGA, RINO Rafensburger and everyone ignored the vote fraud in that primary.
We get what we deserve.
“They will lie, cheat, and steal”
In the 2020 GA Dem primary the losing candidates made the same acusations that MAGA made in Nov 2020. But MAGA, RINO Rafensburger and everyone ignored the vote fraud in that primary.
We get what we deserve.
Only about 25% of registered Republicans even bother voting in primaries (it's about 50% for Democrats).
We've got a serious turnout problem.
Interesting. I found Conner Lamb as the opposite. I was thinking he’d be ripe to switch parties thanks to Nancy being a witch.
MAGA is supposed to be some big threat to democracy. What are democrats going to do about the crazy progressive a-holes in their party that are burning down the country? No plans there I bet.
The run-of-the-mill typical Dem is extremely Progressive these days.
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