Ross Douthat once again makes the argument that the Democrats really aren’t that worried about a Trump presidency, because they refuse to move to the center to win swing voters. Is he right?
My question is, what unpopular left-leaning positions could Biden eschew in order to win over centrists? On policy, he is almost perfectly aligned with the preferences of a majority of the American people, if the polls are to be believed.
The Democrats aren’t losing because they want to protect the environment, or because they want to tax rich people, or because they support abortion rights. America agrees with them, not the GOP, on all of those points. The Democrats are losing because the public is pissed off about inflation and immigration and because Biden is too old, not because the left is viewed as being in thrall to wokeness. If you don’t believe me, ask Trump and DeSantis; the latter ran on the wokeness issue and lost, while the former is saying nothing about it in his campaign.