Compared to Canada, the Democrats are Centre-Right
Compared to European countries, the Democrats are a vanilla establishment Right Wing Party.
Heck, Germany's establishment Right Wing Party is More LEFT than the Democrats
You guys need to get Medicare For All to be proven to be at minimum to be CENTRE-LEFT
And public mandated Maternity leave
Fail to do that, the Dems are just a corporatist Centre-Right Party
And I am not even a Lefty-Left guy, I am actually (internationally) boring Centre-Left
It's all a matter of framing, so I don't think she's wrong, but I also don't think this is something you can easily measure.
What a lot of people do, is measure the policies the Democrats are proposing in a bubble. IE, what are they advocating for? In many cases, yes. These ideas would be seen as center, or center right, but it feels to me like this is usually done without looking at context.
Proposing something like Obamacare (IE, you have to have health insurance and there is a tax penalty if you don't) in the US, represents a clear move to the *left* from what's currently in place, where as in the UK, say, it would be a massive step to the right compared to what they have now.
Personally, I don't think you can ignore this when judging policies. The democrats are proposing things which represent a clear shift to the left, but in many cases that is a starting point, not the end goal. Most of the healthcare proposals, again, are with an end goal of something more like one of the various systems found in Europe, not with an end goal of mandatory health insurance.
AOC is hugely important in that conversation, as she is focused on that end goal, and thankfully isn't going anyway. I am grateful we have people that will keep fighting for that even as we make whatever steps further left we can, based on what elements of government are controlled by who.
Without Justice Democrats trying to pull the party as far left as possible, I wonder where the central democrat would be, given you have the Republicans trying to push everything as far right as possible, and while I don't think it's smart to go *directly* to M4A personally, I'm very glad there are people who will continue to advocate for it until something like it hopefully happens some day.