Reporter says Democrats win by not being Democrats

Josh Kraushaar of National Journal made the case for Biden. The argument is 2020 is easy for Democrat to win if they don't act like Democrats.

Kraushaar wrote, "Democrats don’t appreciate how close they are to securing unfettered power in Washington come January 2021.

"Listening to their rhetoric, you’d think that the Democratic Party was consigned to permanent-minority status. Party leaders complain about the unfairness of the political process, with leading Democratic politicians pledging to fight the scourge of gerrymandered districts, the legislative filibuster, and the Electoral College — all while railing against voter suppression.

"The reality is that the Democratic Party is ascendant, but the progressive movement isn’t willing to make the compromises necessary to capitalize on the current political moment. The party’s base is increasingly convinced that the only way to change what happens in Washington is by rallying behind the most ideologically extreme voices, whose unrealistic proposals have no chance of passing even a Democratic-controlled Congress."

Democrats win, as long as they don't act like Democrats.

What he dismissed as "the most ideologically extreme voices" are the mainstream of the Democrat Party.

Reparations are mainstream in a party where one-fourth of its supporters are black.

The Green New Deal is mainstream in a party whose 2000 presidential candidate won a Nobel for pushing global warming.

Medicare For All is mainstream in a party that abandoned Obamacare.

Gun confiscation is mainstream in a party that seizes on mass gun shootings to push gun control. (Democrats ignore the weekly mass shootings in gun-controlled Chicago.)

Kraushaar looks at President Donald John Trump's poll numbers and believes Democrats can win if they hide their craziness away.

The point of his column was to discredit Elizabeth Warren.

He wrote, "Privately, Democratic strategists are more anxious, worried that any presidential nominee’s calls for Medicare For All and the decriminalization of border crossings will be damaging in the Republican-leaning states where so many pivotal Senate races will be fought. Red-state Senate candidates are currently able to promote poll-tested platitudes about their views on health care and immigration. They’ll find themselves constantly on the defensive if the socialist-minded musings of Warren and Bernie Sanders become the official Democratic Party doctrine."

Of course, it is too late. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the soul of the Democrat Party, replacing Obama the Awful.

The Big O campaigned as a wink-wink, nudge-nudge moderate. He did not have to tell LGBT voters he was for gay marriage. That worked in 2008 because Democrats trusted Obama to be a lying two-faced conman who would push the radical agenda he denied he was pushing.

The problem is, Obama did not deliver. They say a camel is a horse written by a committee. Obamacare is socialized health care written by a camel.

Nevertheless, Kraushaar argued that moderation in the pursuit of socialism is a virtue.

He wrote, "Many anti-Trump voters in the suburbs voted for Republican congressional candidates as a way to check an anticipated Hillary Clinton presidency. These voters overwhelmingly backed Democrats in the 2018 midterms. But if Warren or Sanders wins the Democratic nomination, expect a wave of swing voters making strategic voting choices to limit the scope of the revolution.

"At this week’s Democratic debate, pragmatists like Joe Biden or Amy Klobuchar have a real opportunity to score points by emphasizing that the true-blue believers don’t have a plan to get anything done if elected."

If Democrats had this huge mandate — this demographic destiny to rule — why would they have to be sneaky about who they are and what they want to accomplish?