It’s really shitty that the Democrats have to appeal to leftist, liberals, independents, Democrats and everything in between with the platform and messaging, Republicans have to appeal to their base, that’s it. Makes it really hard to win elections when you have to be the perfect candidate for 10 different groups of people all with different ideologies.
They don’t have to be perfect, just not alienating to 80% of their potential supporters. They didn’t appeal to anyone but supposed “centrists” that are actually right-wing and would never vote D, and their real constituancy of wealthy backers.
It’s really shitty that the Democrats have to appeal to leftist, liberals, independents, Democrats and everything in between with the platform and messaging, Republicans have to appeal to their base, that’s it. Makes it really hard to win elections when you have to be the perfect candidate for 10 different groups of people all with different ideologies.
They don’t have to be perfect, just not alienating to 80% of their potential supporters. They didn’t appeal to anyone but supposed “centrists” that are actually right-wing and would never vote D, and their real constituancy of wealthy backers.