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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by jfengel on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @02:20PM (#27897271)
You're correct: I conflated liberals, progressives, and Democrats. There are definitely important distinctions, but I conflated them as all being roughly on the same side when it comes to politics and dealing with the opposition party.

As for "examples", take a look at those two books I mentioned. There are many more books, and many op-ed pieces every time Democrats lose elections.

It's only relatively recently that the more progressive wing of the party has said, "Hey, rather than try to bend over backwards to attract moderate conservatives, how about you garner more enthusiasm from your left wing?" Or at least, they've been saying it for a while, but were generally dismissed. I think 2016 made the proposition more thinkable: if they will vote for the Republican candidate even if he's obviously insane, maybe a new approach is needed.

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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by dfxm12 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:00PM (#27897761)
FYI, progressives did not write the books you mentioned, so they aren't good examples of showing how "Progressives seem to me desperate to understand and cater to conservatives".
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Re:Hungarian journalists and critics of Orbán were targeted ... by jfengel on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @03:32PM (#27898174)
You're correct. I should have said "Democrats", who are the party most closely aligned with progressives and the more progressive of the two parties, but not really very progressive. These books are written targeting centrist Democrats.
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