The middle may be diminishing, but it still holds the balance of power. And after years of talking themselves into disbelieving it, Democrats are reacquainting themselves with political reality. jonathanchait writes
Not long before the polls closed on Election Day, progressive activists Jeff Hauser and Max Moran circulated aexplaining what had gone wrong for the Democrats. Titled “AGAINST AGGRESSIVE MUNDANENESS: Why Democrats’ Message Failed in the 2022 Midterms, and the Corporate Crackdown That Could Save Them,” the memo blamed the Democrats’ strategy of reassuring swing voters — which one article dubbed “aggressive mundaneness” — for its presumptive defeat.
Hauser and Max expected Democrats would suffer a rout, hence the memo’s subtitle, “Why Democrats’ Message Failed in the 2022 Midterms.” Instead, its logic would seem to imply the strategy succeeded.
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