![]() And I think that Donald Trump is a similar candidate in his own respect. If you were a progressive, you could see him as a progressive. You know, if you were a centrist, you could see Obama as a centrist. I mean, one of Obama’s great strengths was that he managed to sort of be something for everybody. To me, it’s not all that different from what Obama did. It’s just that I don’t think there’s necessarily all that much upside if you can excite people by other means. ![]() That’s not to say, by the way, that you can’t win doing that. And so if I were a Democrat looking at 2020, I would look to the people who did best in this year, and I would say that they are young, and that they still manage to excite people without listing off every policy dream of the left. A lot of them were just compelling candidates, really talented candidates who came forward in a year when Democrats needed them to. Both to the progressive base and to moderate voters. And yet something about their biography still made them really compelling. I mean, they weren’t necessarily centrist or something, but they weren’t running as progressive firebrands. The Democrats that I saw who outperformed the most were people who were relatively moderate. There were a lot of progressive candidates who won primaries this cycle on some sort of argument that if we mobilize the base, we can transform the electorate and win places where we don’t usually win. ![]() I would point out two things about what we see in the results so far: One is that just being a progressive superstar is not enough to fundamentally transform an electorate and win a race. Does this election give you any kind of insight into the type of candidate you think Democrats should run in 2020?
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