Red-state Democrats, many of them representing districts won by Donald Trump in 2016, met in Columbus, Ohio to come up with a strategy to counter what they see as the socialist takeover of their party.
At the very least, they are far less strident and not quite as hysterically anti-Trump as the rest of their party.
Pragmatism may be a tougher sell in the Donald Trump era, but with the 2020 presidential race just around the corner, moderate Democrats know they are running out of time to reassert themselves.
Where progressives see a rare opportunity to capitalize on an energized Democratic base, moderates see a better chance to win over Republicans turned off by Trump.
"We will be a permanent minority party in this country," said Iowa state Sen. Jeff Danielson, a firefighter who represents an area that saw one of the biggest swings from Barack Obama to Trump during the 2016 election.
Single-payer, government-run health care may be a popular party plank in New York City, where Ocascio-Cortez [sic], a Democratic Socialist, recently won a high-profile primary, Danielson said, but added, "It does not work in the rest of America ... and I'm tired of losing."
Realistically, the Democratic moderates have no better chance of impacting the direction of their party than GOP moderates have in influencing Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/moderate_dems_meet_to_save_party_from_the_socialists.html
At the very least, they are far less strident and not quite as hysterically anti-Trump as the rest of their party.
Pragmatism may be a tougher sell in the Donald Trump era, but with the 2020 presidential race just around the corner, moderate Democrats know they are running out of time to reassert themselves.
Where progressives see a rare opportunity to capitalize on an energized Democratic base, moderates see a better chance to win over Republicans turned off by Trump.
"We will be a permanent minority party in this country," said Iowa state Sen. Jeff Danielson, a firefighter who represents an area that saw one of the biggest swings from Barack Obama to Trump during the 2016 election.
Single-payer, government-run health care may be a popular party plank in New York City, where Ocascio-Cortez [sic], a Democratic Socialist, recently won a high-profile primary, Danielson said, but added, "It does not work in the rest of America ... and I'm tired of losing."
Realistically, the Democratic moderates have no better chance of impacting the direction of their party than GOP moderates have in influencing Republicans.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/07/moderate_dems_meet_to_save_party_from_the_socialists.html
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