Progressives Dems are indistinguishable from the moderates. It is not like the 1970s and 1980s when progressives like Bela Abzug and moderates like Henry Scoop Jackson had strong differences of opinion on many issues. Today, the party has become completely radicalized, and the moderates are only slightly less vocal about it. In other words, moderate only in their disposition and temperament, not in policies.
No such thing as a moderate Dem anymore.
Grandstanders….for sure…..Sinema & Manchin….no sane person would have voted for the latest bill that is floating.
But even if there are some that could be considered moderate, their moderation is behind closed doors. In public there’s no separating them from The Squad, they may not be as vocal. It’s all about how they vote and they vote with the progressives every time.
You can see this in the way that they pretty much all vote for whatever Pelosi puts forward in the House and there are only 2 Democrats in the Senate who ever push back against any of the insane far Left proposals Schumer puts forward.
Bela Abzug. I have not thought of her in years. She was an extreme communist Marxist, back in the day when the FBI actually kept people like that under surveillance and not promote them to head the Bureau. The biggest problem is she would be considered a moderate today.
Nothing remains of the old extreme Left that is extreme to the Left anymore.
And with their insists ce they aren’t the ones who have gone into wierdo land a “moderate” would now include McGovern if not outright socialists. They call the Clintons right of center.
That’s why so much looks far right to them.
Remember the marching band in Animal House that is led into a sharp left turn into a blind alley where, even though bunched up at the end, they are still playing? Well, the Democrats are like that band. Only where the band is merely trying to play the Left now angrily accuses anyone not in the dead end alley with them, people still on the street where parades are supposed to happen, of being the far right.