Thought experiment – a new scale
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez noted that our swing voters are not "the middle" but people who never voted before. Makes sense, but what does that really look like? What would it take for Democrats to stop chasing the mythical "center" and start putting some real energy into activating voters who would be inclined to vote for Democratic candidates on election day? My sense is that instead of "left, middle, right" we'd end up with a scale that looked something like ...