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'Squad' member Ayanna Pressley worries Democrats will swing to the center after election defeat
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Progressive "Squad" member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., worried that the Democratic Party would abandon its far-left policy goals in response to its defeat in the 2024 election.

In comments to the Boston Globe, Pressley suggested that this would be the wrong approach to winning back voters' confidence.
 
"I am concerned that we will reflexively, in this moment, moderate our policy aspirations," she said. "If we are to say, ‘Come on home and let’s do the work of getting the gavel back and being in power, getting the House, getting the Senate, getting the White House,’ the real question is, Democrats, you want the power, but to do what? And this has been an issue that we have struggled to overcome."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/squad-member-ayanna-pressley-worries-democrats-will-swing-to-the-center-after-election-defeat/ar-AA1uT7A2?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=81b8d5e21712406fa7f2677c760e970d&ei=60
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address

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It worries me too!  If they move more to the center, they will get more votes. :whistle:
The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee that, from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth.  George Washington - Farewell Address