A new narrative blames left-wing advocacy groups for the Democratic Party's struggles, arguing that they've driven the party's agenda too far to the left. This analysis examines this claim, considering the party's recent performance and the reality of its base.
A consensus is emerging in liberal establishment circles about what is needed to address the ills of a beleaguered and defeated Democratic Party . It goes something like this: Democrats have allowed advocacy groups to drive their agenda too far to the left. On issues like trans women in sports and border security, Democrats need to stand up to extremists in their ranks and make the party back into a home for moderate and working-class voters.
The only problem with this narrative is that it is impossible to reconcile with the polling data that we have or the campaigns that we just witnessed. It also willingly allows the far right to dictate the terms of a culture war that Democrats can only resolve with surrender. Still, the “lefty nonprofits lost the 2024 election” caucus has some influential members. Adam Jentleson, the chief of staff for Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, said Democrats“crippled by a fetish for putting coalition management over a real desire for power,” a problem that has led “voters to desert them over the very stances that these groups impose on the party.” For Matthew Yglesias, the Democrats have become a “party that insists on trying to impose fringe values on an unwilling populace” because party elites “have allowed those on the far left to exert much too much influence over their policy agenda in recent years,” as he argued in a for Slow Boring. When pressed for which “fringe values” were responsible for the party’s loss, many of these thinkers will point to trans rights, which are “a major problem for Democrats” since “their base is vehement that to back away from talking about, say, trans rights is a moral, not just a political, failing,” as former CNN political analyst Chris CillizzaIt’s an appealingly simple story, one that places the blame for what is about to happen to America under Donald Trump on left-wing activists and nonprofit leaders—and more or less absolves everyone who is involved in politic
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