Roe: In line with what Kristin said, I believe that there’s a governing philosophy of Democrats right now that the Republicans have actually had for the last decade and which drove suburban voters away from the party — and that is a commitment to the base, to the idealism of their party.
We still have very worthy conversations about ideological issues in our party. But we wage them in campaign cycles and in times when the voters don’t care about those issues where they might not agree. But even if they do agree with us on some of those fundamental issues, they don’t like to hear about them and they don’t think it matters to them personally.
The Republicans have been revolutionaries for most of the 2000s. And then they lost mightily because of it. A lot of people blamed President Trump for that. It’s not because of him; it was because of the construct of our party. Democrats now are the revolutionaries. It just took them 10 months what took us 10 years, and they’re going to hollow out their version of the suburbs.
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