The Democratic Party is not run by progressives, and it never has been. But one wouldn't know that from most of the political reporting, and that's not just true of today. It's always been that way. The party likes having them around because (1) they are reliable votes and (2) they have someone to blame when things go bad. "Tacking to the center" has never worked but it is usually the strategy of the party.
In the Obama administration, the "moderates" (aka, the corporate Dems), convinced him to tack to the center on both immigration and Obamacare, saying they had tough reelections. Well, he did as they asked. What did we get? Sub-optimal policy, and they all lost anyway.
In the past few days, we've gotten another round of "what should Biden do to save his presidency" from a bunch of centrists. What's their prognosis? To do what Biden's pretty much already doing!
The party is run by corporate interest and K Street. Kyrsten Sinema is a K Street candidate, picked by them and Chuck Schumer. So are most of the rest of the Senate. The question someone asked on Twitter the other day was whether we think the future of the party should be centered around K Street or working people. So far the party has chosen the former and then blamed the latter when they lose elections.
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