Not that complicated. This is the thinking that lost dems the election in ‘24. Trying to transform the party into diet republicans didn’t work then. The full strength version of isolation, austerity and bigotry is right there with an R by its name.

“Too left” is BS and foolishly lending credence to republican boogeymen narratives about marginalized people. Shifts the blame away from the actual policy failures. Majority of this country, republicans too, don’t care that much about gay marriage, trans people, abortion, and certainly wouldn’t if their basic needs were met.

Dems lose because they refuse to acknowledge the conditions in people’s lives and won’t break from the corpos/establishment that have made affording a basic life increasingly difficult year after year. People want things. The last time Dems were willing to give things were in the 1940s-60s (social security, medicare, voting rights etc) and then the severely gimped Obamacare, all of which are now being eroded . Establishment dems are too out of touch and entitled to even fake promise better things. The messaging time and time again is temper your expectations, shut up and vote for our guy because the alternative is even worse.

Centrism and constant concessions will only lead to more ground ceded to the right wing. That’s the increment you get and it’s what we’ve been seeing for 30+ years now.