The Democratic Party is in a bind.

There is a general acknowledgment that voters this November and beyond might easily be put off by the radical policies of many Democratic candidates, such as abolishing the police, abolishing ICE, and paying for sex change operations for illegal immigrants with tax dollars. Such extremes and general weirdness certainly hurt Democrats at the ballot box in 2024.

On the other hand, however, socialist candidates who fervently supported these positions are now winning Democratic primaries nationwide. So is the party to welcome them or repudiate its own nominees? How can the Democrats pretend to move toward the political center, as is customary, while embracing the radicalism that general election voters reject?