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Left-wing ideas and rhetoric have been damaging the Democrats’ brand, according to a report from a left-leaning group. The group, Welcome, . The report found that 70% of voters believe that the Democratic Party is out of touch with the people and that it over-focuses on issues like “fighting climate change” and “protecting the rights of LGBTQ Americans.” However, the Democrats don’t seem to prioritize issues regarding crime and the border, the report found. “The Democratic Party had better listen — for the good of our nation,” former Illinois Democratic Rep. Cheri Bustos said in support of the report. The report from Welcome was inspired by a paper titled “The Politics of Evasion” in 1989, which had the Democratic Party becoming more centrist under former . The report said that the Democratic Party has to be “willing to break with unpopular party orthodoxies.” The manager of former ’s primary campaign said that Democrats don’t know how to win elections. “For the last 20 years, Democrats have just misunderstood how you actually win elections,” Greg Schultz said in an interview with Semafor. “I thought Biden had proven in the 2020 primary that the base of the Democratic Party is a 58-year old woman without a college degree. But when you hear people in DC say ‘the base,’ they mean white intellectuals that live in a few coastal cities.”
