Exactly. Trump didn’t win by courting centrists. He energized entirely new voters (albeit with racism).

Democrats insist that perpetually leaning further into corporatism and imperialism and abandoning marginalized groups like trans people and immigrants will win the “likely voters”.

A real winning strategy would be to have policies that actually inspire people and turn out new voters.

That would assume they actually want what they say they want though, instead of being controlled opposition.