There are signs far from Washington that moderate Democrats are doing extremely well in districts Trump captured only a few months ago.
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Big if true
mar 18, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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mar 18, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
damn the traitors and their ancestors
mar 18, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
no one believes this shit stop pushing it
mar 18, 2025, 8:07 pm • 2 0 • view
A "centrist democrat" is a Republican.
mar 18, 2025, 5:24 pm • 90 0 • view
Or as I like to call them, Republican Lites. And nobody likes the lite version of anything.
mar 18, 2025, 11:48 pm • 5 0 • view
Can they have their moment in the sun on the literal fucking sun please
mar 18, 2025, 5:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Believe it when I actually see the results
mar 18, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Propaganda garbage lol
mar 18, 2025, 4:11 pm • 0 0 • view
If you feel like this garbage is just providing cover for fascists, you’d be right. foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/06/a...
mar 18, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Trash
mar 18, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
"pulled to the middle." Yeah sure fine except the middle is a lot further to the right than it used to be. And it just keeps sliding. This is some Chamberlain-level appeasement.
mar 18, 2025, 1:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Bruh
mar 18, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol fuck off
mar 19, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
That's hilarious. The Democratic base is turning on moderates who refuse to represent their interests with passion. I've never seen anything like it from this group.
mar 18, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
politico doing more to damn the idea of moderates by accident than some will do on purpose
mar 18, 2025, 4:22 pm • 3 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 4:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I believe you they like terrible human beings.
mar 18, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Centrist Dems 🤝 Adult Diapers
mar 18, 2025, 7:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Centrist Democrats must be destroyed. They've destroyed the Democratic party. Centers. Democrats cannot be trusted. The Democratic party maybe should not survive. We want revolution now. Tax the oligarchs
mar 19, 2025, 12:51 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah losing. Centrist Dems shouldn't exist anymore.
mar 18, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Dear God, let the midterms come quickly
mar 18, 2025, 10:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Like dick they are. Bernie and Walz are out there trying to do everything while mid-Dems complain about voters not being more Republican for them
mar 19, 2025, 10:26 am • 2 0 • view
You just want to help Trump win.
mar 18, 2025, 4:10 pm • 32 0 • view
US Politics are basically Reagan era GOP vs 1930s German right wing, and Dems are proud of this for some fucking reason
mar 18, 2025, 1:27 pm • 8 0 • view
Elections are 2 long years away!!
mar 18, 2025, 3:02 pm • 0 0 • view
You are really trying it
mar 18, 2025, 4:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Gavin Newsom and Chuck Schumer are having a “moment” in that they are being eviscerated by their party and their favorability is plummeting lol
mar 18, 2025, 4:04 pm • 22 0 • view
Newsome is a centrist? 🤔
mar 24, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck off
mar 18, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Irrelevant. The events last few months have *decisively* put an end to the “vote blue no matter who”. The likes of Rahm are not going to suffice.
mar 18, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
genuinely false
mar 19, 2025, 1:06 am • 0 0 • view
Politico thinks Democrats running on an economic message is an example of "centrism" 😂 That is literally the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read. Does Politico really think the Democratic Party had been running on trans issues and DEI at the expense of economic issues since 2015? Fucking really?
mar 18, 2025, 8:18 pm • 5 0 • view
Centrist Dems and NeoLibs are the reason trump has been viable. You’re a shit media outlet
mar 18, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Where « moderate » means right-wing &「 having a moment 」means the moribund fascistic party is having an extinction burst because they/their donors prefer fascism to letting people have any even slightly leftish movement 「 politico 」would be sued for journalistic malpractice if there were standards
mar 18, 2025, 3:51 pm • 23 0 • view
Ask Schumer and Fetterman how that moment is going.
mar 18, 2025, 3:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Shoot Rahm fucking Enmanuel into the sun
mar 18, 2025, 5:21 pm • 24 0 • view
No they aren’t, you fucking idiots. This is why they lost.
mar 18, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
Great. If there’s anything called for in these times it’s moderation.
mar 18, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
The air having oxygen is having a moment
mar 18, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Lol said the Trump AFD supporting news. “Centrists” lose.
mar 19, 2025, 1:05 am • 0 0 • view
Tldr a democrat who lost in iowa by not that much, and 1 other person who won in a red state where that was most likely the only option from the democrats, means that third way neo liberals are having their time to shine. They will flip every seat in the house and senate blue for us. Give me a break
mar 18, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
Imagine how well democrats who AREN’T conservative would do!
mar 19, 2025, 3:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Literal Nazi propaganda
mar 18, 2025, 3:57 pm • 238 2 • view
Absolute drivel
mar 18, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
They will have every opportunity to increase their balance of power in both houses and in states come midterm elections.
mar 19, 2025, 8:49 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, Dems, let’s not lose the thread. Democracy is about what the true majority really wants; typically the “greatest good for the greatest number”. Don’t die on extremist hills! You can be a Dem and still be a centrist.
mar 18, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
There's nothing "extreme" about advocating for human rights. Minorities should not suffer the tyranny of a majority's persecution.
mar 18, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
If you want to keep losing elections sure keep nominating feckless centrists who do nothing but cede ground to the GOP
mar 18, 2025, 3:11 pm • 6 0 • view
Whoever wrote this dogshit should sit on hot asphalt
mar 19, 2025, 12:35 am • 2 0 • view
What is a "moderate democrat"?
mar 18, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
“In an Iowa state House special election last week, the Democratic candidate — though ultimately losing — outperformed Kamala Harris by 24 points.” The shocking part here, is they still lost in the midst of this constitutional crisis.
mar 18, 2025, 1:20 pm • 5 0 • view
This is absolutely not true. Democrat approval is at an all-time low with their base, and swinging to the 'center' (IE, moving right) is profoundly unpopular even with so-called 'centrist' democrats. Everyone is losing points. Why are you carrying water for fascist-ass behavior, Politico?
mar 18, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Meanwhile Bernie has tens of thousands of attendees. "Centrist" is a buzz word for essentially trying to placate insanity by moving closer to it. I want corporations accountable for all the damage: social, financial, political.If@sanders.senate.gov is what "centrist" looks like, I'm in. #oligarchy
mar 18, 2025, 2:17 pm • 8 0 • view
😂
mar 18, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't like how biased towards the right your article is coded, Politico. Stop trying to look bipartisan. You're not fooling most of us.
mar 19, 2025, 5:06 am • 7 0 • view
Nice you think you'll have elections.
mar 18, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view
There are signs far from Washington that the Democratic Party has messily shat it’s pants
mar 18, 2025, 4:12 pm • 1 0 • view
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
mar 18, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
lol no they aren’t. Dems favorability has cratered. Just because republicans are also cratering doesn’t mean Dems are doing well.
mar 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Hope they quietly take over red states Seeing as ya know News media is now Trump tv and no one knows wtf is going on anywhere in the states
mar 18, 2025, 1:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Thing is Democrats let us down last time. Didn’t control the border, didn’t stand up to Israel
mar 19, 2025, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
Your headline is incorrect. It should read “_Conservative_ Dems' message to _party_”.
mar 18, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
They ran dick cheney's candidate and lost all three branches, but that won't stop them fluffing a child murder cover up guy, dammit
mar 19, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
Where is this coming from??? I should rephrase the question. Who or what is financing this stupid inaccurate article?? Nooooooo Corporate Dems are NOT doing well right now!!!
mar 18, 2025, 3:27 pm • 4 0 • view
We don't need centrists, we need people who will do sh*t.
mar 18, 2025, 1:53 pm • 4 0 • view
RAHM EMMANUEL COVERED UP THE MURDER OF A BLACK TEENAGER TO PROTECT THE CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT. THIS MAN SHOULD NEVER EVEN THINK OF STEPPING NEAR THE OVAL OFFICE.
mar 18, 2025, 2:54 pm • 61 0 • view
Rahm should be in jail
apr 10, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Dem favorability polling shows the party at the lowest popularity it's literally ever seen in its entire history. Moderates lost the most important election of our lifetimes, and then other moderates capitulated to a wannabe dictator during a clear constitutional crisis.
mar 18, 2025, 4:35 pm • 4 0 • view
Vichy America preparing for their moment in the sun
mar 18, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
So... you're just making up the news?
mar 18, 2025, 4:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I doubt it really. Those stupid enough to vote Trump because of a load of lies will still be stupid in 4 years time so will believe something equally ridiculous. The selfish will still be selfish. The really well off will be even richer. There needs to be a seismic shift away from Trump.
mar 18, 2025, 1:28 pm • 3 0 • view
Considering how much the left is absolutely eviscerating Dems like Schumer and Newsom right now, I would say that, no, centrist Democrats are not, in fact, “having a moment” right now. Knock this shit off. You’re never going to make fetch happen.
mar 18, 2025, 1:28 pm • 68 2 • view
If you define "having a moment" as "getting pantsed, tripping headfirst into an open barrel, and rolling down a big hill," then they could be having a big moment
mar 18, 2025, 4:17 pm • 12 1 • view
Yup, 2016 ended up leading to extreme leftist candidate......Joe Biden.
mar 18, 2025, 7:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I can smell a lie.
mar 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 3 0 • view
This is a crap analysis.
mar 18, 2025, 4:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico wishcasting. Ignore and move on
mar 18, 2025, 1:27 pm • 30 0 • view
Psyop and cope in one.
mar 18, 2025, 5:20 pm • 1 0 • view
I think it's cool how your single data point is that one lady lost a special election.
mar 18, 2025, 4:05 pm • 172 0 • view
That and a quote from a Third Way bobblehead and you've got an article baby!
mar 18, 2025, 4:19 pm • 4 0 • view
"Moderates still don't win in deep red districts, but they're losing by less!" is the battle cry of people who want us to be ruled by Republicans forever.
mar 18, 2025, 4:06 pm • 128 3 • view
"Newsom is going to be super popular among moderates in red states who don't vote" hell yeah brother that sounds like a winning strategy.
mar 18, 2025, 4:08 pm • 75 1 • view
yeah newsom has moderate red state nonvoters locked, unless the rest of the red state actual voters actually vote! it's bulletproof!
mar 18, 2025, 4:23 pm • 5 0 • view
You don't get it, do you???? Newsom is gonna invite to his podcast the jaw of Adolf Hitler and spend 2 hours peddling to the far right. That's exactly the energy we need for 2028!
mar 18, 2025, 4:10 pm • 25 0 • view
Right on. The battle cry of “moderates” that would like the fascism to be a little more polite like in the old day.
mar 18, 2025, 4:21 pm • 3 1 • view
Really shit take by Politico. Democrats going to the center is the LAST thing they need. This feels like a conservative propaganda piece.
mar 18, 2025, 11:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Of course deep red areas are electing moderate dems since voters know that they are way more likely to cave to Trump than progressives
mar 18, 2025, 5:02 pm • 1 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 4:44 pm • 3 0 • view
God he’s such a fucking ghoul
mar 19, 2025, 4:00 am • 1 0 • view
Amazing a centrist publication would push for centrist politicians, what a shock
mar 18, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I love how Dems always get called “elitists” when Trump’s cabinet is literally the wealthiest in history. Also, based on higher education trends, Dems get called elitists just for graduating college these days.
mar 18, 2025, 2:05 pm • 15 0 • view
I think Politico really wants Dems to swing right because they know the GOP is toast!
mar 18, 2025, 3:57 pm • 7 0 • view
Achieving their goals does not make the GOP toast. Being weak and unable to do anything makes the Democrats toast.
mar 18, 2025, 4:04 pm • 7 0 • view
What the GOP is doing will wreck the economy & people’s lives & livelihoods. I’m a Brit, we were sold sunlit uplands & freedom as Brexit benefits. Brexit is now widely acknowledged as a disaster & our Conservatives were wiped out at the last election. GOP are going down if u guys can have elections.
mar 18, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes but it doesn’t matter. The Democratic Party is controlled opposition and they will always find a way to throw the election to the GOP. And most republicans are happy to hurt their own livelihood for the sake of hurting the people they hate even more.
mar 18, 2025, 6:27 pm • 1 0 • view
We don't actually know about that whole "having elections" thing just right now. Check back in a few years.
mar 19, 2025, 7:01 am • 0 0 • view
Politico is owned by a Nazi who wants to see the United States subsumed by fascism and Centrist Democrats prefer fascism to social democracy
mar 18, 2025, 4:09 pm • 5 1 • view
Centrists are spineless
mar 18, 2025, 9:51 pm • 0 0 • view
"Centrist" isn't a real thing.
mar 19, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 4:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Y'all are going to wake up one morning and Donald has enacted Marshall law. Cable news off air. Presidential address starts and the screen reveals Putin in the oval office and Trump standing beside him. What you doing next?
mar 18, 2025, 9:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Centrism doesn't work. I think we've had enough of it's failures for the last decade. Time to move on from centrism and right wing democratic ideology because it doesn't work for the people.
mar 18, 2025, 8:30 pm • 12 0 • view
"I swear guys, I know we lost in 2016 and in 2024, and won by a nudge in 2020 while riding a pandemic, an economic crisis and the biggest civil rights movement since the 60s, but I promise you that Americans who voted for a fascist promising them change would love to go back to Dem centrists"
mar 18, 2025, 4:09 pm • 5 0 • view
How out of touch these people are to think that *anyone* would vote for Rahm Emanuel. Incredible.
mar 18, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
You can be a right-wing extremist corrupt criminal warmonger and journalists will call you "moderate" so long as you're a Democrat.
mar 18, 2025, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
We won't survive to the midterms.
mar 18, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
What a miserable headline
mar 18, 2025, 1:35 pm • 2 0 • view
Centrists Dems are why we have fascism.
mar 18, 2025, 3:58 pm • 275 3 • view
Yikes.
mar 18, 2025, 4:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Still trying to speak this bullshit into existence, politico?
mar 18, 2025, 9:04 pm • 12 0 • view
You miserable scumbags did not mention that Newsom’s polling has tanked now that he has a swastika tattoo on his forehead. This is not objective reporting, the agenda is clear, and it’s a nazi agenda
mar 18, 2025, 1:14 pm • 21 0 • view
An article that suggests that leftist—as opposed to centrist—politics are “elitism” is not an article worth taking seriously.
mar 18, 2025, 5:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Anything is true if you just make it up.
mar 18, 2025, 8:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Blue Dogs can go hang out with Kristi Noem.
mar 18, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah it’s a real big moment. 27% approval rating. thehill.com/homenews/cam...
mar 18, 2025, 4:06 pm • 49 1 • view
What are the chances that Democratic leaders will see this and go: "See? We NEED to go to the center and appeal to moderate Republicans. Progressives are making us look bad!"
mar 18, 2025, 11:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Manchin "moderate"...hahaha hahaha... Breathes Hahahahahahahahahaha
mar 18, 2025, 1:15 pm • 12 0 • view
are these signs in the room with us now
mar 18, 2025, 6:20 pm • 3 0 • view
In what dimension?
mar 18, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
The most gratifying part of this story is that Dems are making inroads at the state and local level, which is where the GOP started to achieve their current dominance. Progressives will win in progressive areas, but moderates can win everywhere else, and there is a lot more “everywhere else”.
mar 18, 2025, 1:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you people on crack? Dems are at record low approval ratings because of “centrist” MAGA-lite democrats
mar 18, 2025, 4:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Keep perfuming that turd, folks.
mar 18, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Well isn’t this the writing equivalent of wet shit in a truck stop bathroom. The MSM has been prattling on for decades saying the same thing, actually yes, 2 conservative parties is exactly what we need.
mar 18, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
My fav. part of the 2020 election is when Republicans lost, they said, "we're done with extremism, we're moving towards the center and we definitely won't become more radicalized, try to start an insurrection, and fully dismantle the government." Because they knew the people love fence sitters!
mar 18, 2025, 4:05 pm • 15 0 • view
lol no there isn’t.
mar 18, 2025, 4:39 pm • 3 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 3:11 pm • 6 0 • view
The key to victory is Centrist Democrats— Gain the Independent voters in EVERY State !!
mar 18, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Uhmn,…where’s the “center” when vicious Fascism is operative, if not preponderant, on the political spectrum? Jus’ axin’ Bannon’s new friend, Gavin from California 😡
mar 18, 2025, 1:29 pm • 4 0 • view
fuck all of these reptiles
mar 18, 2025, 4:33 pm • 2 0 • view
ugh no
mar 18, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
You're a nazi publication right
mar 18, 2025, 3:33 pm • 134 0 • view
Like you're owned by a German nazi isn't that right
mar 18, 2025, 3:33 pm • 90 0 • view
Yes, every time dems lose an election (even by razor thin margins) you can count on bad faith shitheads crapping out their "iF dEmS wAnT tO wIn ElEcTiOnS tHeY nEeD tO BeComE rEpuBliCaNs!!1!" takes. Ignore them.
mar 18, 2025, 4:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Finally, common sense is returning.
apr 15, 2025, 1:34 am • 0 0 • view
mar 18, 2025, 5:09 pm • 6 0 • view
no i don't think that's true
mar 18, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Um, name ID maybe?
mar 18, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
What middle...? There is none. Today, if you're middle of the road you'll end up road kill. It's the GOP that needs to tack back to the center, and into reality where civilized people exist
mar 19, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
you fucking idiot. the 2026 election is not going to be a legitimate election. republicans know they will lose so they are working hard to pre corrupt it.
mar 18, 2025, 1:44 pm • 4 0 • view
They are having a being exposed over being diet fascist moment.
mar 18, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
No the fuck they aren't
mar 18, 2025, 7:39 pm • 5 0 • view
like Marshall Petain and Quisling had their moment.
mar 18, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
russian warship, go fuck yourself
mar 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean, Harris ran as hard core centrist. She campaigned with Liz Cheney ffs!
mar 18, 2025, 2:34 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re centrist? These Dems seem to be Gabbard Dems.
mar 18, 2025, 4:05 pm • 1 0 • view
This isn't your average every day copium, this is... ...ADVANCED copium
mar 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 8 0 • view
The secret is truly constitutional middle of the road and conservative democrats to build a united front to reake power by winning over fed up Dems and waning Republicans.
mar 18, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
if being a moderate centrist was a winning strategy then Dems would have won in November. what a load of shit.
mar 18, 2025, 4:42 pm • 4 0 • view
i suppose accidentally painting the seat and legs of your pants with burning diarrhea is a kind of moment
mar 18, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
They are only citing other Dems from the same clan, as the basis of their propaganda. This is an article funded and pushed by themselves.
mar 18, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 0 • view
You mean if people get off their collective asses and go vote that the democrats might have a chance?
mar 18, 2025, 1:18 pm • 5 0 • view
If you think Rahm Emanuel is a moderate you have rocks in your head. This is the same thinking that gave us presidents Gore, Keryy, H Clinton and Harris
mar 18, 2025, 4:19 pm • 3 0 • view
They are not.
mar 18, 2025, 3:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Capturing the court. Replacing Civil Service with toadies. Replacing JAG and military leadership with toadies. Firing Inspectors General. Replacing FBI and DOJ with toadies. Democracy is in a race with popular opinion to see if it will exist.
mar 18, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
Too little too late. If people really think these gangsters are going to be moved by democratic means that’s pure ‘Hopium’. Trump and his gang have too much to lose - including their liberty to succumb to legal and democratic pressure.
mar 18, 2025, 1:41 pm • 4 0 • view
The only purpose of the “centrist” democrat, the Liebermans and the Sinemas and the Manchins, is so that the owners of capital only have to purchase a select few, not the whole Congress, to gum up the works, to prevent government from claiming its power to help people, to undermine good works.
mar 19, 2025, 2:17 am • 9 0 • view
Tf is a centrist democrat??? Sounds like a repub/maga to me.
mar 18, 2025, 10:06 pm • 0 0 • view