Democrats Need More Combative Centrists

Yglesias has been hammering an important point for a while, which is that while Kamala Harris nearly won, democrats were nowhere near keeping the senate majority, and that this is a major issue with the party’s general ideology and issue positioning.

> On a range of cultural issues such as the death penalty, late-term abortions, trans people’s participation on women’s sports teams and immigration enforcement, Democrats have let themselves get persistently on the wrong side of national public opinion — to say nothing of opinion in red states.

No, I’m not going to give up any ground on these issues just to appease median voters.