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The reality is even worse. They're going to "learn" all the wrong lessons. They will shift further to the right, like they always do.
Yep, every time Dems can't get enough votes from the left to win, because they aren't "left/pure enough" for them, what they learn is to shift to the right to find votes.
Whereas since voters on the right will always vote for the one with the R by their name even if they don't think the candidate is "right enough", their party learns that it doesn't have to move to the left to find enough votes and stays to the right or moves even further to the right.
...you don't win over conservatives by offering light-conservatism, but the democratic party have run the same playbook since 1992...
The only way to win over conservatives is a full-throated embrace of fascism. Turns them out like crazy.
...the funny counterpart is that when liberals run a full-throated embrace of populism, their greatest threat isn't the surge of new progressive supporters, but establishment democrats desperately afraid of losing conservatives who'd never support them anyway...