At least in a multi party parliamentary system where no party will itself form a majority. Any party has both a ceiling and a floor that limits overlap of another party’s positions.
Unclear whether that translates to a two party system where each party must attempt forming a majority within itself.
The majority of Democrat voters favor policies more liberal than the ones Democrat politicians favor. There's nowhere right to go, and plenty of room to go left.
There's plenty of marginal voters who are liberal but don't always turn out and unlike voters on the right no one is competing for them. The Democratic Party is constantly trying to scrape a few voters from the ceiling instead of engaging the main base and the unattended floor.
That’s why one of the most effective things Dems could be doing right now is holding listening sessions in the districts and states of incumbent Republicans where they can address how they would be acting and voting differently in they were in office instead.
Though I bet there are a number of center "left" think tanks furiously writing copy on how "you can't apply this to the super unique American politics that cannot be compared to anything anywhere if it disagrees with what we want"
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Unclear whether that translates to a two party system where each party must attempt forming a majority within itself.
The majority of Democratic voters are not the majority of all voters.
Elections are won by marginal voters who very much have room to move right — and do with alarming frequency.
There's plenty of marginal voters who are liberal but don't always turn out and unlike voters on the right no one is competing for them. The Democratic Party is constantly trying to scrape a few voters from the ceiling instead of engaging the main base and the unattended floor.
But as Trump has shown there are also a lot of voters in the center who also don’t always turn out.
Though I bet there are a number of center "left" think tanks furiously writing copy on how "you can't apply this to the super unique American politics that cannot be compared to anything anywhere if it disagrees with what we want"