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Here's the thing though, if you are ultra conservative, or even just a Republican, leftist, left wing, liberals, and Democrats, all mean the same exact thing (not conservative Republican). Hell most people left of conservatives don't even know the differences themselves. It's really shitty that the Democrats have to appeal to leftist, liberals, independents, Democrats and everything in between with the platform and messaging, Republicans have to appeal to their base, that's it. Makes it really hard to win elections when you have to be the perfect candidate for 10 different groups of people all with different ideologies.
The DNC isn't even trying to appeal to leftists, they purely care about their donors, same as the GOP.
Republicans spend all their time and money appealing to the Republican base, Democrats in turn also spend all their time and money appealing to the Republican base.