John Judis and Ruy Teixeira, co-authors of “The Emerging Democratic Majority,” are back with a new book that argues that the Democrats are imperiled by a “shadow party” that is forcing them into “radical” positions on cultural issues and diverting them away from their core economic issues.
Show me a universe where anybody even marginally left of center doesn't prefer to pick a fight with people ideologically aligned with them over the actual fascists.
No, seriously, please open a portal there, I want to move.
And hey, I give far left people a lot of crap for being into that kink really hard, but the liberals and centrists will do the exact same thing unless they have their own party to go be ideologically confused in.
As a side observation, I am constantly baffled that we are almost eight years into this nonsense and the centrist Dem establishment still hasn't realized that there is no way to politically align with the fascist right. You know what their platform is? Whatever it takes to oppose the Democrats. If they advocated for giving machine guns to every citizen tomorrow Trump would call them child murderers immediately.
It's not about the policy, it's about being in power (for the leaders) and screwing with the people they instinctively don't like (for the base). It took five minutes of being online in 2014 to figure this out. How is this still a mystery to these guys?