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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Huh? The woman is a Marxist. That's not "aggressively ideological" ???
Oh .... Well played sir, exceedingly well played.... that plagiarist quoting another plagiarist.
Vote GOPe. That’s their only refuge.
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.
“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.
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.
There are no “centrist” Demonicrats. They are all lying murdering traitors.
That said, I don't see any centrist getting the nomination. The only real question is how crazy left do they go.
How about in their graves? Works for me!
LOL! Clinton & Obama are centrists. This is a battle between the old school masked socialists and the new unmasked socialists.
Bingo! a Winner!
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No laugh. I think it will be Hickenblooper and maybe Kamala harris. Bland sounding white socialist lite and covert communist “person of color”.
Centrist Democrats can recruit Kacish.
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.
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.
They purged the Scoop Jackson Democrats a long time ago, they moved to the GOP and became the Neo-Cons.
“Centrist” Democrats = Masked Socialists
They don’t turn, they #WalkAway.
Hickenlooper stoop up to the craziest anti-oil people here. They won’t forget that.
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