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If ever there was a moment for the Democratic party to reject ideological extremism, this would seem to be it. Now along comes news of an intriguing reform effort led by a source that may surprise some regular readers of this column. Remember the former aide to Sen. John Fetterman (D., Penn.) whose concerns about the senator’s mental health suddenly became public after Mr. Fetterman started expressing some moderate views and was no longer needed to confirm Biden appointees? Sen. Fetterman has received the predictable strange new disrespect from the media since he started taking baby steps toward the political center. But the happy if ironic rest of this story is that his former aide Adam Jentleson now seems to be trying to bring some measure of moderation to the whole Democratic party. Reid Epstein reports today for the New York Times: As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on Wednesday, has some ideas about where the party went wrong. Among them: too much emphasis on issues like climate change and L.G.B.T.Q. rights, and far too much deference to the powerful liberal organizations championing those causes at the expense, some argue, of appealing to voters in battleground states.
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