"The Democratic Party has two competing plans to "pick up the broken pieces from the 2024 election," claimed Elizabeth Warren, in a widely touted speech she delivered Monday at the National Press Club. "One vision says that we should shape our agenda and temper our rhetoric to flatter any fabulously rich person looking for a political party that will entrench their own economic interests," she argued. The other vision-hers, as you might guess-is noble and pure."
"The actual claim moderates tend to make about why their party lost in 2024 is that Kamala Harris was unable to credibly separate herself from the toxic social-policy stances she adopted during her 2020 campaign-the highest-profile being her promise to support taxpayer-financed gender-reassignment surgeries for prisoners and detained migrants. She also did too little to distance herself from the Biden administration's unpopular governing record."
One account divides the Democratic Party between tailoring the agenda to flatter wealthy donors and maintaining uncompromising progressive purity. Few Democrats endorse pandering to fabulously rich individuals. Moderates attribute the 2024 loss to Kamala Harris's inability to credibly separate from controversial 2020 social-policy stances—most notably a promise to support taxpayer-funded gender-reassignment surgeries for prisoners and detained migrants—and to insufficient distancing from the Biden administration's unpopular record. Many progressives reject abandoning those positions, call majority social views unacceptable, and prefer to emphasize opposition to the billionaire class. Grotesque mischaracterizations of moderates signal weakness in the progressive case.
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