From a story on axios.com headlined “Vanishing moderate Dems”:

Jason Zengerle writes in the N.Y. Times Magazine cover story that normal midterm agita is becoming “closer to an existential crisis among moderate Democrats,” who “readily acknowledge that voters perceive the party as having drifted out of the mainstream.”

• “And they are convinced that this is threatening their political survival.”

Zengerle says some of these progressive shifts — especially on economic issues, including raising taxes on corporations and the wealthy, and increasing the federal minimum wage — track with public opinion.