aggiehawg said:
I have been speculating about this for a few years now. With history as a guide, go back to the years between 1968 and roughly 1974.
The Democratic primaries in 1968 were a complete crap show, culminating with the debacle at the Chicago convention. The PTB at the time put George McGovern in charge of addressing those issues. He took the party sharply left, in delegate selection as well as candidates recruited with the creation of superdelegates.
He was rewarded with the nomination in 1972 and was wiped out by Nixon in that election. Party was very fractured. In steps Richard Strauss as DNC chair and he immediately steers the party back to the center with moderates. That resulted in Jimmy Carter and an electoral victory in 1976.
Looking around, there are no moderates such as Strauss wih enough gravitas nor financial support to corral the party back to the center. The ones who arguably could have provided that function are either too old (Pelosi) or have been co-opted by the left out of expediency (Schumer).
Throw nearly a few decades of massive mismanagement with awful DNC chairs and there isn't anyone to right that ship.
Yes, but the party itself is no longer moderate anyway or moderate with enough numbers to matter. In theory, they can't move back to the middle and win unless Virgina is their strategy and everyday Democrats are clever enough to know if they vote for a moderate candidate that they will then immediately govern as a Marxist. This will require their openly Marxist contingent to go along with the deception during the general election knowing this is the real plan.
This will also require the actual, feckless dumbass moderates in this country to not be stupid enough to vote Democrat thinking they will actually be moderate.
It's a really interesting conundrum if I remove my personal feelings of disgust of all of these people from the situation.
