{"id":59137,"date":"2025-04-17T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59137"},"modified":"2025-04-17T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T18:24:38","slug":"moving-left-while-the-voters-move-toward-the-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59137","title":{"rendered":"Moving Left While The Voters Move Toward The Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a political divide in America. There is also a political divide in the Democrat party. There are some Democrats who quietly support ending government waste and ending open borders, and there are some Democrats that want to continue to failed policies of President Biden and President Obama. Unfortunately, the party seems to have chosen to move further left, away from its base, rather than moving toward the center. The Democrats are no longer the party of the working man. They are the party of people traveling in private jets railing at the oligarchy and wanting to &#8216;tax the rich.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/scott-pinsker\/2025\/04\/16\/meet-the-man-who-murdered-the-democratic-party-n4938977\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PJ Media<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>&#8230;<\/em>There\u2019s been a slow-moving coup\u2026 but nobody\u2019s noticed!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s tied to the larger political realignment nationally: Under the MAGA banner, the GOP has evolved into the party of the working man. The Bush-era days of country club conservatives has come and gone (assuming the club isn\u2019t Mar-a-Lago, of course). We\u2019ve gone from Wall Street to Main Street.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But the Democratic Party is realigning, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Liberals are frothing in furious rage \u2014 and not only at Republicans. A record number have lost faith in the Democratic Party. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2025\/03\/16\/democrats-record-low-favorability-republicans-trump\/82471412007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Its favorability has never been this dismal<\/a>. <em>Liberals are begging \u2014 pleading \u2014 for new leaders and a new direction.<\/em> Even in New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5250133-schumer-step-down-new-york-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">53% of Democrats want to fire the Democrats\u2019 Senate leader<\/a>\u2026 who is FROM New York. (Sorry, Chuck Schumer.) This isn\u2019t normal behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>There\u2019s never been a better time for an outsider to seize control.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/aoc-democrats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first big story<\/a> is the Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) whistlestop tour with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). (In honor of Bernie Sanders, I hereby dub it the B.S. tour.) Although they\u2019ve been generating headlines for the size of their enormous crowds \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/bernie-sanders-aoc-crowds-red-states-1235316890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even in ruby-red districts<\/a> \u2014 that\u2019s not the most meaningful part.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>There\u2019s a consensus forming amongst their supporters:\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">They want to go to war.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Liberals are demanding to be represented by a fighter. <a href=\"https:\/\/harvardharrispoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/HHP_April25_KeyResults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Among Democratic voters<\/a>, an overwhelming majority \u2014 72% \u2014 want someone \u201cmore aggressive\u201d to battle Trump. Less than a third (28%) sought a \u201cmoderate\u201d approach.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong><em>The liberal base will choose the most aggressive, fiery liberal candidate. Moderates need not apply.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article notes that David Hogg, the current Vice-Chairman of the Democrat party, is planning to primary any moderate Democrat currently in office. The goal is a radical Democrat party with <span class=\"expandableItem\">Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/span> as its leader. It will be interesting to see how the voters react to this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a political divide in America. There is also a political divide in the Democrat party. There are some Democrats who quietly support ending government waste and ending open borders, and there are some Democrats that want to continue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59137\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15397,664,5277,14302,9732],"class_list":["post-59137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-david-hogg","tag-democrat-party","tag-pj-media","tag-representative-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","tag-senator-bernie-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59138,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59137\/revisions\/59138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}