> The sooner the opponents of the current administration ...instead of going further left and screaming louder), the less damage Trump can inflict. My 2c.

I think the left may see that being conciliatory and moving to the center isn't the way to win. Trump didn't do that and it worked. I think people see that Bernie and AOC are the only politicians on the left that people are actually excited about. They can do the Trump playbook but from the left. Run as something new and untried.

Otherwise the left just becomes Trump-lite, undifferentiated and not as good as the original.

I think when people view the system as broken, they want to try new things. So be something new.

Maybe. Time in opposition, when well spent, is the most effective way to revive a party.

Although I think AOC and Bernie fire up their own base, the people who do not need firing up and will vote for the left anyway. I think going harder left will likely alienate people whom the democrats recently lost and a more centrist agenda can attract more people repelled by Trump’s antics.

I am not a politician, but if left goes farther left I personally will be sitting out the next election regardless of how crazy Donald gets.

This is really amusing to me. I in no way want to diminish your argument or beliefs, but the right are replaying the literal Nazi playbook with abductions of "undesirables" and using state power against political dissidents, but some people will sit that out and implicitly endorse *literal* Nazis because the left asked people to respect trans people's gender identity or whatever the particular beef is.