NBC, you don't need Sherlock Holmes to figure out this mystery. Heck, Encyclopedia Brown might be offended if you brought this to him. Mr. Magoo is saying this is fucking obvious.

Inevitable result of democrats absorbing Good Republicans as the republican party constantly mutates is themselves becoming basically a center-right party imo

They want to be the party of the "moderate conservatives" so badly they'll never realize they are. Like... They did it. They accomplished that goal. The moderate conservatives are on your side now. But that's not a demographic big enough for Democrats to win, and it would kill them to admit that.