If the Democratic Party went Populist would Centrists Flee?

[Sancho]

110. The premise is confounded: economic populism or diversity populism....

when you say, "move to the left" do you mean socialism focused on money or do you mean opening the doors to immigrants and diversity?

The primary battle appears to me to be the Archie Bunkers who embrace an economic solutions vs those would put social change first.

Either could "move to the left". The two "liberal" viewpoints are not entirely compatible, as we have seen.

In practice, progressive Democrats will achieve NOTHING if we keep electing tRumps!! It's a bit of a mute point until people quit running off to vote for outliers who are perfectly aligned with their personal experience, but cost the election.

Most eligible voters don't vote. The percentage of young voters is particularly dismal. Most people don't care or don't know.

Of those who vote, a large number of people vote against their best interest because 1.) they are one-issue voters (guns, abortion, etc.); 2.) they are affiliated with some organization that tells them what to do (NRA, etc.); 3.) they fall prey to propaganda (fake news, FOX, etc.).

If the relatively small number of "liberal-progressive-Democrats" continue to divide themselves over who's ass is more "left", then they will continue to lose elections. Democrats would be better served to have ANY of the leading possibilities than tRump. I am very pissed off at people who jump ship because they don't think the candidate is "left enough" or "too left" or whatever.

I will vote straight Democrat.