It also misreads how right-wing voters view these issues, which tends to be existentially.
As soon as you accept their premise that civilization is crumbling under a tide of non-white invaders, you make any move to the "centre" woefully inadequate as a response.
Dmitry Grozoubinski
like the underlying idea behind popularism is that left-liberal/socdems need to shift to the cultural centre on social policy (immigration/minority rights) and the issue with that is that contemporary electorates for left-liberals *really* do not like being told to eat shit on social policy