Apologizing for any sensible decision they made in the past to appeal to the far left base.
Via Free Beacon:
Democrats vying for the 2020 presidential nomination are apologizing for their past apostasies in a manner that would make Marty Funkhouser proud.
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who has been mulling a run for months, expressed regret for the “big mistake” of supporting tougher sentences for drug possession in the 1980s and 1990s. Biden even attacked then-President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft on crime and drugs.
“It was a big mistake when it was made. We thought, we were told by the experts, that crack—you never go back. It was somehow fundamentally different. It’s not different,” he said at the National Action Network this week. “But it’s trapped an entire generation.”
One recently declared candidate, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.), has described herself as “callous” in her former immigration views and said she “couldn’t have been more wrong” about her previous support for gun rights—she once sported an “A” rating from the National Rifle Association but now proudly has an “F.”