A New, Moderate Way Forward for the Democratic Party

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

69% : If the first election of Donald Trump was a boon to the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, the second might have granted new life to moderates.
60% : A supporter of gun control, Sanders was nevertheless more moderate than many cultural liberals because he had risen to power in a rural state where Republicans once held great sway.
54% : He supported raising the national minimum wage, bolstering railway safety, strengthening Social Security, and making it easier for workers to organize into labor unions.
47% : Climate activism, which burned so hot in the late 2010s and early 2020s, is at a low ebb, and despite David Hogg's rise to vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, there is nothing approximating the mass marches over gun control that took place in 2018 and 2019.
45% : Eight years later, Trump has made tremendous gains with Latino, Asian, and even some Black voters, and his 2024 coalition was more multiracial than any liberal pundit would have predicted just a few years ago.
40% : Matter is moribund, and there are no calls to abolish ICE despite Trump promising mass deportations.
37% : Dan Osborn came within seven points of defeating Deb Fischer, an incumbent Republican, in a state Trump would carry by more than 20.
36% : On culture, he did pivot right: He backed Trump's border wall and gun rights.
33% : Osborn did not commit to caucusing with the Democrats if he won, but at minimum, he would not have been an automatic vote for Trump in the Senate.
23% : It was far easier to blame racism for Trump's shock win in 2016 because Barack Obama had stumped aggressively for Hillary Clinton, who still beat Trump by two percentage points.
13% : Were it up to Third Way, Trump would never have turned against NAFTA and Obama would have tried to triangulate John McCain on economics, running to the right as the financial sector collapsed in 2008.

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