Will the Dems go full-on Macron from here forward?

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The new Democratic coalition has more wealthy suburbanites in it then before, but you'd have know nothing about American politics to believe that poorer and working class people aren't essential pillars of the party. For one, do you really think the party's black voters, who are chronically cursed with economic and social malaises, will forgive a Thatcherite agenda from the party? What about the party's huge base of young people living in rather precarious economic situations? And so on.

People have a very short term memory. They seem to be under the impression that the old Blue Dogs were uniformly Non Partisan League style vulgar populists who said politically incorrect things but fought against the elites, when in fact they were largely corporate shills, owned by Wall Street and special interests. The "new Dems" - the likes of, say, Spanberger or Slotkin - are not ideal, but if anything they are to the left of where centrist Dems used to be. In fact, the most explicitly right wing Democrat on economic grounds is Jeff Van Drew, who is not remotely from the school of Dems that people like hofoid are most scared of.

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I think a big problem is that people are desperate to square their pet theories with reality. We saw this to an extent with Pressley. People so wanted to cast a narrative that the Democratic base are so consumed with Identity politics that they imagined this alternative scenario where Capuono was being challenged by a right-wing sleeper agent, when in fact Pressley has (disingenuously or not, it doesn't really matter) presented herself as one of the left leaders of the incoming freshmen.

I mean, I'm not inherently opposed to the idea that progressives  are relying far too heavily on their racial/sexual orientations: which often ends up in hilarious misadventures like Julia Salazar. (And for that matter often comes in a weird backwards form a la Iron Stache) But I feel some people have got so invested in looking at everything through Extremely Online SJW lenses that they have developed a rather warped understanding of politics.