No. My point is that issues largely don't even matter. It's not a matter of turning the dial left or right, because there isn't a center. People don't go into the voter booth and look at a spreadsheet of issues a candidate supports and opposes and choose the candidate that aligns with their preferences the most. The overwhelming majority of potential voters in each election won't even choose between candidates, they'll choose the candidate from the party they prefer or they'll stay home. What's left, probably no more than 10% of voters, have completely incoherent politics and vote based on vibes. Do they really like a candidate or at least hate the other?
So campaigns are about two things: 1) turning out your base, and 2) winning the undecideds. You hurt both goals by trying to triangulate around some imagined optimum collection of "centrist" or "moderate" positions. That shit turns off your base and gets a lot of them to stay home and it tells the undecided voters that you don't really believe in anything. That you don't care about anything. Undecided voters love "change" candidates because those candidates give the impression that they'll care enough about something to get shit done.
Issues largely don't matter, how you message them does. The Dems are absolute dogshit at messaging them.