points sent to reporters the republican national committee call it a former early fringed progressive move movement a key force in moving the exactic party further left. >> do you think the democrat irk party has moved left? or is this a more open tent these days. >> i do think that it's moving more left. i don't think that progressivism or liberalism is -- is a farout idea anymore. >> our thanks though margle marcus and ron brownants is with me now. you have written a lot about this fork in the road that democrats face. do they target mostly white moderate voters? or do they try to energize the groups fired up against trump's agenda and his style. >> it's a bigger problem for 2020 than 2018, frankly. i mean in 2018 you can kind of localize. you can pick candidates who fit the local conditions. there are few democrats running if any in the swing districts talking about impeachment.