Ezra Klein: ‘Why Democrats Still Have to Appeal to the Center, but Republicans Don’t’

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 From the New York Times:

Put simply, Democrats can’t win running the kinds of campaigns and deploying the kinds of tactics that succeed for Republicans. They can move to the left, and they are, but they can’t abandon the center — or, given the geography of American politics, the center-right — and still hold power. Democrats are modestly, but importantly, restrained by diversity and democracy. Republicans are not.

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