In Michigan, Kamala Harris told anyone fretting about an electric vehicle mandate that she’d “never tell you what kind of car you have to drive.” In Nevada, she told a Univision town hall attendee, who tearily recounted how her mother died without legal status, that she would hire “1,500 more border agents” while forging ahead on immigration reform.
And in Arizona, standing in front of a “country over party” banner, Harris appealed to conservative Mormons — her pastor spoke at the LDS church president’s 100th birthday, she noted—– while promising that a “bipartisan council of advisors” would shape her thinking in the White House.
The Democratic Party, after two decades of leftward post-Clinton drift, has jerked abruptly right. Facing Donald Trump for the third consecutive election, Democrats are making rhetorical and policy concessions that they didn’t want to, or think they needed to, in 2016 and 2020. They’ve adjusted to an electorate that’s shifted to the right, toward the Trump-led GOP, on issues that progressives once hoped were non-negotiable — immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, climate change policies, and criminal justice reform.
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