Dem Dilemma: Far-Left Can’t Tolerate Winning Language | The American Spectator

There’s good news and bad news in Democrat circles these days.
The good news is that there is growing agreement on what is needed to rebound from the disaster of the 2024 election. Namely, for the party’s various factions to come together on an agenda which appeals to more voters outside of big cities such as New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Progressives, on the other hand, take every opportunity … to emphatically restate their most extreme views, no matter how much this hurts Democrats overall.
It started last April, when Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman’s former chief of staff, Adam Jentleson, pitched the creation of a think tank called Searchlight for the specific purpose of rewording Democrat policies in ways that sound less woke. The party must reject “the rigid mores and vocabulary of college-educated elites [and especially anything] to do with race- and group-based identity politics,” he argued, and it must speak to people in everyday language.
Around that same time, the New York Times editorial board began chiding progressives for being “too focused on personal identity and on Americans’ differences — by race, gender, sexuality, and religion — rather than our shared values.” And for failing to learn from the fact that Democrats who won in places where Trump also won, such as Sen. Ruben Gallego of Arizona and Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, had “adopted a more moderate tone on [issues like] border security and law enforcement.”
Then just recently, a newly formed group of 30 Democrat politicians, which calls itself Majority Democrats, declared its intention to bring together the party’s moderates and progressives on an agenda that will appeal to all Americans, not only the far left.  “If we don’t build this big-tent party that can win majorities,” notes Rep. Angie Craig (D, MN), a leader of the initiative, “we’re on the path of being the party of the permanent minority from a national-election perspective.”
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