The qualifier at the end there is because there's lots of proof that moderates/independents threatening to vote for Republicans or not vote has in fact forced measurable change out of Democrats on many occasions.
Why would you assume this and not the simpler explanation this was always the preferred course of action by the overwhelming ruling class and this perceived threat or the electoral game is itself just an excuse.
Another popular theory is the democrats have always been controlled opposition, people repeat this often, they're not meant to do or believe any leftist position.
"The democrats are moving right" is a popular narrative but were they ever to the "left" to the begin with? For example you can say yes you can also give a counter example of them doing outright right wing policies.
No matter how we decide, even if we take the dems as actual "left" on the American political discourse, I'm still not realy convinced they're moving right because of these right wing voters.
On the contrary I think the Democrats realized that Blue MAGA is real, their voters are just as unprincipled as they are, they only care about winning therefore they don't even have to pander to leftist positions anymore therefore giving the imagine they're moving right, no perhaps they just stopped pretending to be leftists at all.
Why would you assume this and not the simpler explanation this was always the preferred course of action by the overwhelming ruling class and this perceived threat or the electoral game is itself just an excuse.
Another popular theory is the democrats have always been controlled opposition, people repeat this often, they're not meant to do or believe any leftist position.
"The democrats are moving right" is a popular narrative but were they ever to the "left" to the begin with? For example you can say yes you can also give a counter example of them doing outright right wing policies.
No matter how we decide, even if we take the dems as actual "left" on the American political discourse, I'm still not realy convinced they're moving right because of these right wing voters.
On the contrary I think the Democrats realized that Blue MAGA is real, their voters are just as unprincipled as they are, they only care about winning therefore they don't even have to pander to leftist positions anymore therefore giving the imagine they're moving right, no perhaps they just stopped pretending to be leftists at all.