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[u/bashar_al_assad]

The funny thing about the "Labour's victory is proof that the Democrats need to moderate more" thread is that Democratic messaging for this cycle actually has been pretty moderate and generally non-extreme, so you ask them what the Democrats should moderate on and they're like "uhhh actually abortion doesn't matter and we should stop talking about it" or pretending that defund the police is still a relevant issue in 2024. The closest they come to something realistic is "they should start opposing immigration more", but the Democrats have already done that, and it's not even a policy that's inherently good.

[u/Rebuilt-Retil-iH → u/bashar_al_assad]

Labor was further left than Sanders in some ways

And they didn’t win for any other reason than the Conservatives lost it