Will GOP migration, or a new "religious left" make the Democratic Party more conservative?
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Question: Will GOP migration, or a new "religious left" make the Democratic Party more conservative?
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GOP migration will effect them, but not a religious left.
 
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A religious left will, but not GOP migration.
 
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Both will.
 
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Neither will.
 
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WindowPhil
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« on: June 16, 2021, 06:27:03 AM »

By GOP migration, I mean the phenomenon of the Trumpian GOP turning off some types of conservatives (The Jeff Flakes and George HW Bushes of the world, Nevertrumpers, "Suburban voters who swung towards the Democrats", you know who I'm talking about), those people moving into the Democratic party, and making the party more conservative.


By a religious left, that could mean alot of different things:
 
Anything from the sort of message of people like the Pete Buttigieg's and Joe Biden's have been trying progressing and eventually materializing into a movement.

Religious POC voters showing their muscles and forming a wing of the party as America becomes more diverse.

Young evangelicals who join the Democratic party because they're relatively "Woke" when it comes to issues of systemic racism and sexism (perhaps in line with 2nd wave feminists aside from being pro life) and turned off by the GOP because of it. While also being very anti LGBT and against things like legal marijuana or any healthcare policy to the left of Obamacare.
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« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2021, 11:01:33 AM »
« Edited: June 16, 2021, 11:05:50 AM by Tartarus Sauce »

I think you're making some misassumptions about the actual nature of these kinds of voters' incorporation into the Democratic Party. In regards to the absorption of "never-Trumper's" and suburban moderates that swung against Republicans, they aren't so much making the Democratic Party more conservative as much as that their drift towards the Democratic Party is influencing them to become more liberal.

As for the "religious left," these voters are actually not necessarily more conservative than mainstream liberals, just more religious. If anything, the kind of voter that would apply that kind of label to themselves isn't related to the kind of traditionally devout, largely minority based Democrats who do tend to be more ideological moderate to conservative; a self-identified "religious left" Democrat is more likely to be a college-educated progressive activist who also happens to strongly identify as a practicing Christian. About the only point they might feel more conflicted about among the standard liberal constellation of issue orientations is on the matter of abortion.
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« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2021, 01:28:57 PM »

Young evangelicals who join the Democratic party because they're relatively "Woke" when it comes to issues of systemic racism and sexism (perhaps in line with 2nd wave feminists aside from being pro life) and turned off by the GOP because of it. While also being very anti LGBT and against things like legal marijuana or any healthcare policy to the left of Obamacare.

What? Every liberal church in my area has a giant pride flag flying in front.
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« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2021, 01:46:29 PM »

not in the way you are thinking no
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« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2021, 07:38:34 PM »

Would be interesting to see, but unlikely
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« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2021, 09:46:07 PM »

The Republicans who migrated to the Democratic Party are making it more moderate on fiscal issues (i.e., Biden says he won't raise taxes on anyone making under 400k a year) but these voters were basically just as liberal as Democrats on social issues.  I think perhaps some of them were more conservative on national security issues but the GOP is allover the place on that anyways so I don't think they are really forcing their hand with democrats. 

As far as religious left, that's not happening.  The country is getting less religious not more religious and this is happening across ethnic lines.  In 20 years the median voter will probably mirror the median democratic voter right now. 
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« Reply #6 on: June 22, 2021, 10:11:10 AM »

There is no such thing as a religious left
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« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2021, 12:08:02 PM »

We have a religious left, they're Black and Hispanic Democrats.
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