I’ll elaborate more on why ‘moderation” in the Democratic Party is such nonsense. The central political fact of our time is that over the last 30 years, the top 1% have gotten $21 trillion richer, while the bottom 50% have gotten $900 billion poorer.
Policies that allowed the top 1% to gain a disproportionate share of income and wealth were not and are not "moderate." They are "radical." Truly moderate policies would not have have had this result.