Just so you know, if Pelosi goes, she gets replaced with a centrist. [View all]
Pelosi is from the progressive wing of the party. She also happens to be an extremely capable leader.
There's some fantasy going around in far-left circles that Pelosi is a milquetoast centrist, and that her replacement would be a Jeremy Corbyn style "true socialist". Like most far-left fantasies, this is totally detached from reality.
The next person in line for the leadership is Steny Hoyer. Hoyer is an actual centrist. Not an anyone-right-of-Karl-Marx-is-a-sellout type of centrist, but a centrist in US political reality.
It is true that the GOP likes to demonize Pelosi and link her to Dems in purple/red districts. This is because she is (correctly) perceived as a liberal. But this problem is not going to be solved by replacing her with an American Jeremy Corbyn. That would actually make for an easier GOP target.
I like Pelosi and think she has done a great job. At the same time, if strategically it is better to have someone else in that role, I'm OK with that too. What matters is winning elections. But let's not pretend that somehow the Dems' problems will be fixed by replacing Pelosi with a far-leftist. First, this isn't going to happen, if she goes, she will be replaced by someone less progressive. And second, if she did get replaced by a far-leftist, that wouldn't help the Dems' electoral prospects, it would hurt them.
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