[gnusty_gnurc]

> He doesn't know which way the political winds are blowing for Democrats--further leftward or back to the center--and he is too shrewd to be left behind in either case.

I'd argue the wind is blowing outward. Across the political spectrum, as the establishment parties are hollow shells of increasing extremism and the rest of America is a plurality of independents frustrated by the lack of anyone that can speak to them without left/right platitudes.