A Democrat describes watching relatives leave the party as it shifted left, interpreting the DNC chant "We're not going back" as a promise to abandon the moderate, union-friendly platform of JFK and FDR for a leftist direction represented by Harris, Walz, and Ocasio-Cortez.
I grew up believing that the Democrats were our party. Fast forward to today, and many of those same family members are no longer Democrats. They feel the party has changed, left them behind. At the DNC, I couldn't help but think about my family. Every time the elites chanted, "We're not going back," what I heard was, "We're not going back to the party your union family members used to vote for." That's what I said. I said it was a brilliant line. That's right, we Democrats are not going back to be the Democrats of JFK, of even FDR, of Harry Truman. We are now the Democrats of Kamala Harris, Tim Walz, AOC, and the rest of the leftists.
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