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NPR
"Democratic presidential hopefuls are betting on bold. The majority of the Democrats running for president want to create a national health insurance program. Several want to do away with private health insurance entirely. Candidates are engaging on questions about reparations for slavery, and most of the White House hopefuls have endorsed the goal of a carbon-neutral economy within the next decade."
A Dose of Moderation Would Help Democrats By David Leonhardt
"The energy in the 2020 Democratic campaign has been coming from the left. Candidates are pushing Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, a wealth tax and other ideas that are more progressive than anything a recent Democratic nominee has favored. Much of this shift — which has been focused on economic policy — is smart. Republicans may cry socialism, and affluent centrists may not love it. But the American public leans decidedly left on economics. A clear majority favors higher taxes on the rich, a higher minimum wage and expanded government health insurance. After four decades of slow-growing living standards, people want change. And yet there are also risks in the Democrats’ move to the left — risks that the sillier criticisms of the party’s new progressivism sometimes obscure."
Trump Can Win If Democrats Lurch Left
The democrats blew it big time in 1972 against the embattled Richard Nixon and I could see that happening again in 2020. Nixon was facing Watergate but that didn't stop him from winning nearly every state - McGovern ran a devastatingly bad campaign. I think Trumps festish over the wall is stupid but I could see the democrats blowing it big time in 2020, especially if the party becomes too far to the left.