This is astute, though I’d also say that candidate recruitment and funding is a mechanism by which electoral strategy can get baked into sincere ideology. “We need to moderate *policy* to win swing districts” easily becomes “we need moderate *candidates* to win swing districts”….
for sociological reasons the public messaging from Democratic insiders about abandoning lines of conflict always pretends to be about strategy but it's important to be clear eyed that a core faction of Democrats are *ideologically* opposed to anything vaguely progressive
Apr 30, 2025 18:54
