This is the same exact losing strategy the centrist democrats have been attempting to use for the last 20 years. They want "broad appeal" which basically means virtue signalling to bigoted republican voters who are going to mechanically vote for the person with the R next to their name no matter what any democrat says or does. And yet, they keep trying and turning their backs on the left as if to say, "we don't need you to win".

Until these awful people are ejected from the democratic party or the DSA gains more momentum, this bullshit is just going to keep happening.