Mayor Pete is a sharp, well-spoken guy. That is true. I do think he's an economic moderate, basically because everybody knows he's a liar. If he wins, he'll basically be like Obama. He's recycling the public option from the original Obamacare, but like Obama, he's a corporate Democrat and will very quickly drop it. He's not going to go to war with the health insurance industry. Bernie will. It's not just a campaign issue for him. It's his life's ambition.
What Pete (and all of these candidates) miss is that is that what really hurts Democrats in the key states isn't the absence of economic moderation. It's the absence of social and cultural moderation. Pete's hard left on abortion, and he's hard left on sexual and gender identity issues. That'll make him an easy target for Trump in those states. It may help him run up the score in New York City and San Francisco, but it's not going to play in suburban Pittsburg or rural Wisconsin. You can sell the public option in those places. You can't sell social radicalism really anywhere but where God-haters are dominant.
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