Inside the Moderate Mind

A progressive immigration activist recently told me that every election year, moderate Democrats urge him to shut up.  Moderate Democrats clearly consider immigration a losing issue.  But according to my source, they’re also quite self-righteous about their shushing.  Which makes me wonder: What’s going on inside the mind of the moderate Democrat?

Leading possibilities:

They care about immigration just as much as the progressive immigration activists.  But moderates live in the real world. ...