A good breakdown of the evidence from 2024 in the US of "moderating" messaging from the left by making it more congenial to the right. Moderating is based on the theory that the winning electoral strategy for the left is to position around a fixed, large set of voters who favour median policies + belief that elections are a bad time to try to move voters. As with UK Labour, the *quantitative evidence*, which is supposed to matter so much to the technocrats, says this is worse than useless.
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