Moderate Democrats Don’t Exist. Just Look At Joe Manchin.
His “permitting reform” plan was just a sop to the “renewables” crowd who bankroll that party.
by Scott McKay
October 17, 2022, 11:08 PM
Whatever you do, do not get fooled by the idea that the Democrat running for Congress or the Senate or something down the ballot as picayune as the local school board is a “moderate” or a “centrist.”
We’ll prove it.
Sure, there are “moderates” and “centrists” within the Democrat Party’s electorate. A decent number of them, actually. It’s maybe a third of their voters, which is a lot less than it used to be. But those voters do not produce candidates in major elections — or really even in minor ones anymore.
Why? Because you can’t raise money as a Democrat if you don’t hew to the hardcore radical leftist line. And there aren’t many votes for you, either. Here’s a recent poll that proves it:
See that 35 percent? That’s the nonradical contingent in the Democrat Party. They’re the ones who think it’s terrible that people would riot over a street criminal dying of a fentanyl overdose while in police custody, object to kneeling during the national anthem, contemplate violence toward people who would attempt to turn their kids trans, and seethe over high gas prices amid the federal government declaring war on domestic energy producers.
Those people have no representation in the Democrat Party anymore because the majority within that party hates them every bit as much as they hate Republicans. Perhaps even more because the new leftist majority in the Democrat Party knows that it can’t engage in open political warfare against them for fear of them leaving the party outright and destroying what’s left of the current political consensus.
And that current political consensus doesn’t really exist anymore, you know. It was forged between William F. Buckley conservatives and Daniel Patrick Moynihan liberals, neither of which exist in active quantities in 2022. But should it fall so completely away that no emanations or penumbras of it are left apparent and the “moderate” and “centrist” Democrats no longer have anything like a political home in which their votes and activism might rest, well …
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