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LearnedHand

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3. The *Prospect* is saying Dems need to shift rightward?
Wed Dec 17, 2025, 09:59 AM
Dec 17

I know they’re trying to get at something like a French Revolution vibe — and we definitely should do that — but this article is so much more of that same losing approach as always. The problem with trying to move to the center is that the center is now somewhere in Eugene McCarthy land. Have these people ever even heard of the Overton Window??? Not only will this strategy not win moderate voters, it will so alienate the rank and file Dems that party registrations will fall to the homeopathic range. The only approach is to change the message completely. I realize the headline hinted at that, but the content absolutely didn’t earn that title.

Thanks so much, Prospect.

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