Advice noted and rejected. Appealing to "centrists" leads nowhere. The political landscape shifted so far right, it's a wonder anyone can still call themselves

Advice noted and rejected. Appealing to "centrists" leads nowhere. The political landscape shifted so far right, it's a wonder anyone can still call themselves "centrist" seriously. We now have "centrist" thought-leaders being openly bigoted towards LGBT people, questioning vaccine efficacy and the existence of climate change. "Thrashing the other side" is exactly how the right got elected, so I wouldn't call it unproductive. If the left is to win anything ever again, it's by having its own tea party and throwing out all the ineffective old guys of the establishment, not by appealing to that fabled "moderate" who has "reasonable demands" the left is supposedly not addressing. Socialized healthcare, redistributibe taxation, aggressive anti-monopoly actions... All things that poll incredibly well and that could be exploited to win, but that current democrats are too afraid to campaign on for fear of alienating their wealthy donors.