How bad are things going for the Democrats?
They have moved so far out of the American mainstream that even Obama is now warning them to pull it back.
Wii they listen to him?
Politico reports:
Obama speaks out on 2020: Voters ‘don’t want to see crazy stuff’
Former President Barack Obama urged Democrats to offer proposals for progress on health care and inequality Friday evening in rare remarks on the 2020 presidential campaign — but he cautioned that most voters aren’t the same as “left-leaning Twitter feeds” and “don’t want to see crazy stuff” from Democratic presidential candidates.
Obama did not mention any candidates by name as he addressed the Democracy Alliance, a group of liberal donors who gathered this week to discuss their spending plans for the 2020 election.
But as he spoke alongside Stacey Abrams, Democrats’ 2018 nominee for governor of Georgia, Obama appeared to critique the candidates pushing major change in the Democratic primary — such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — as well as former Vice President Joe Biden, who has hugged Obama’s legacy close on the campaign trail, even as Obama says he’s eager for the party to move beyond the markers he set…
The former president encouraged Democrats to think practically about policies that will appeal to regular voters. “I think it is very important for all the candidates who are running at every level to pay some attention to where voters actually are and how they can actually think about their lives,” Obama said.
“The average American doesn’t think we have to completely tear down the system and remake it,” Obama said. “They just don’t want to see crazy stuff.”
Obama might be too late to the game on this.
Obama wades into the 2020 race, warning of the dangers of listening to “certain left-leaning twitter feeds” or “the activist wing of our party.”
“Even as we push the envelope and we are bold in our vision we also have to be rooted in reality," he said. https://t.co/OioCWy4pbv
— Lisa Lerer (@llerer) November 16, 2019
Obama's comments were meant to reassure establishment Democrats about the strength of the field. But they also offered an implicit critique of Sanders & Warren, as well as proposals once widely considered to be left to the liberal fringes of the party. https://t.co/bbjPvWl4Yr
— Lisa Lerer (@llerer) November 16, 2019
The Democrats are headed for a major battle for control of their party.
It’s not going to be pretty.
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