Here's a interesting question.
If you were in charge of the DNC, what would you do to try to win 2028? do you stick with Moderates? lean harder into the left?
Lean *hard* into the moderates. There's still a lot of "classical liberals" that have gone over to the right because they were basically forced out of the left. They could pick up more than they would lose among the radicals.
See, the radicals have nowhere else to go. The two party system kills them. There's no farther-left party that's worth speaking of. The worst they could do is just not vote at all, they wouldn't start voting for republicans. But the moderates
are starting to vote Republican,
particularly as the Republican party is doing exactly what I'm talking about in the other direction.
It's what Trump's strength is, and it's why some people on the right hate him so bad - he's dragged the Republican party farther towards moderate than it was for decades - it's basically almost verboten in current republican discourse to be anti-gay, for example. The focus has shifted from just general anti-gay hate to
specific issues, many of which even the moderate left can get behind - grooming, drag queens for kids, gay porn in schools, etc. Specific issues, not broad hatred. Meanwhile, one of the old bastions of the right, the "pro life" crowd, has been marginalized - the current republican stance is more "abortion is bad, but put it in the hands of the states" than "ban it all together". And despite the evangelicals on Xitter making a big stink about how "if Trump isn't anti-abortion, I can't vote for him! He'll regret it!"... It's not like they're going to vote for the party that would make fetus-eating legal in a couple decades at the rate they were going. The worst case scenario is they don't vote at all, not that they vote for the other guy - and realistically most of them aren't even going to abstain, since they know that as much as they may not like Trump's stance, the current left is far worse.
Extremists on either side are a bad group to court - they aren't the majority of your base.
Trump understands that. Democrats don't.