Everyone is saying it's gaslighting, but no, there are singular members of Obama/Biden world that view Neera Tanden as being from the left flank of the party (because in 2008 that's exactly what she/CAP was, especially compared to DLC/PPI and other affiliated groups like third way and what not).
Edit just to further expand my point:
DLC/PPI essentially acquired the org started by the people who moderate the neoliberal subreddit with the explicit purpose of building community around their cause. Neera Tanden and CAP, no matter how much they suck, are legitimately just not aligned with those folks and are in many ways still social democrats rather than just being outright right wingers. It's the difference between having your preferred presidential candidate being a Warren/Beto/Harris who are really just political hacks that support some expanded social welfare spending vs those who legitimately just want to enact and further right wing economic policy goals.
Most people who became politically awakened as a part of the "sanders world" of politics truly just struggle to understand how far right wing the democratic party actually is given the majority of house members are affiliated with the PPI/DLC side of things rather than with even the CAP side of things. Clyburn and Pelosi are "progressives" because they are for the most part against what the PPI/DLC wants which include things like cuts to social security/medicare/medicaid/ect.
Everyone is saying it's gaslighting, but no, there are singular members of Obama/Biden world that view Neera Tanden as being from the left flank of the party (because in 2008 that's exactly what she/CAP was, especially compared to DLC/PPI and other affiliated groups like third way and what not).
Edit just to further expand my point:
DLC/PPI essentially acquired the org started by the people who moderate the neoliberal subreddit with the explicit purpose of building community around their cause. Neera Tanden and CAP, no matter how much they suck, are legitimately just not aligned with those folks and are in many ways still social democrats rather than just being outright right wingers. It's the difference between having your preferred presidential candidate being a Warren/Beto/Harris who are really just political hacks that support some expanded social welfare spending vs those who legitimately just want to enact and further right wing economic policy goals.
Most people who became politically awakened as a part of the "sanders world" of politics truly just struggle to understand how far right wing the democratic party actually is given the majority of house members are affiliated with the PPI/DLC side of things rather than with even the CAP side of things. Clyburn and Pelosi are "progressives" because they are for the most part against what the PPI/DLC wants which include things like cuts to social security/medicare/medicaid/ect.