I tend to agree with you, because look at where the Democrats are today politically.
I laugh at the television when I hear these pundits utter the term "Democrat Moderates."
There are no moderates in the Democrat party any longer. No radical ideology, is too far left. No policy is too evil, to include murdering infants while in or out of the womb, the lie that men can become women and vice versa, the horrific child abuse and mutilation of encouraging and allowing emotionally fractured children to become "transgendered", the suppression of free speech in the most fascist ways imaginable, and on and on.
The media worked with the Dems in moving the goalposts; a “moderate” now supports abortion-on-demand, “gay marriage”, increased taxes, and open borders. A leftist supports racial reparations and forgiving student loans...and those are the only positions I can think of that wouldn’t get lumped with “moderate” today.