[jfengel]

The Republican party's ideology may be unrecognizable, but the party itself has all of the same membership. The Democratic party has had little success courting Republicans who claim to be disaffected with the current administration, and I don't think that leaning into that even harder is likely to work.

The Democrats had big successes earlier this month by doing exactly the opposite: pandering to the left. That's anathema to the Clinton-era Democrats who created this proposal, but at this point it may be the best hope they have. They just demonstrated that they do have the ability to win, and they offer a much more exciting platform than moderate center-right.

I myself am more ideologically in line with the authors of this site than with the left. If the Democratic party does shift that direction there will be a lot of conflict. But that conflict gets me at least some of what I want, while continuing to lose to a highly-energized far right leaves me unequivocally worse off.