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You guys take the most liberal members of the party and use them as justification for the argument that the two parties are vastly different from one another. The average Democrat and the average Republican are incredibly close on their views concerning “progressive” policies. https://twitter.com/wonderking82/status/1342134916595769347
M4A, student loan forgiveness, term limits, campaign finance, wages etc. Most of them cluster around a center left-center-right mean position that doesn’t produce policy aggressive enough to introduce the sweeping change necessary to impact the most vulnerable populations.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/245462/democrats-favor-moderate-party-gop-conservative.aspx
“Democrats are so different from Republicans!”
“Democrats are so different from Republicans!”
& Even if you argue that they are different via polarization of preferences over time, you still see a troubling trend. Bulk of Democrats consistently cluster around a the same ideological score across decades, while Republicans move to the right w/ more diversity in their party.
https://rpubs.com/caddigan/asymmetric_polarization
“Democrats & Republicans have traded places as the more “moderate” party a couple times in this period. Center & far-left Democrats are no further from the center than they were in 1995.”
“Democrats & Republicans have traded places as the more “moderate” party a couple times in this period. Center & far-left Democrats are no further from the center than they were in 1995.”
