Progressive “Squad” member Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., worried that the Democratic Party would abandon its far-left policy goals in response to its defeat in the 2024 election.
In comments to the Boston Globe, Pressley suggested that this would be the wrong approach to winning back voters’ confidence.
“I am concerned that we will reflexively, in this moment, moderate our policy aspirations,” she said. “If we are to say, ‘Come on home and let’s do the work of getting the gavel back and being in power, getting the House, getting the Senate, getting the White House,’ the real question is, Democrats, you want the power, but to do what? And this has been an issue that we have struggled to overcome.”
In the aftermath of the election, moderate members of the Democratic Party have suggested that the party’s focus on identity politics had contributed to the exodus of blue-collar and minority voters from the party over the past few …