The Democrats think centrism will re-elect Biden. That’s a dangerous assumption | David Sirota

The party has settled on a new playbook: shifting right and hoping demoralized voters are repulsed by Republicans

The Democratic party's political class has developed a rote formula over the last decade: ignore rather than channel discontent among the party's rank-and-file voters, prevent competitive primaries where those voters can act on their dissatisfaction, and then hope to eke out general election victories on a wave of voter disgust with the Republican party's outlandish nominees.

This isn't just a fleeting tactic. This is now The Formula of Democratic PoliticsTM, one with mixed results. In 2016, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer publicly bragged that the Formula would result in flipping enough moderate voters to secure a victory - just before the Formula's epic failure handed Donald Trump the presidency.