Commentary “You can’t win without the conservatives,” said Richard Nixon. “But you can’t win only with the conservatives.” He was referring how Republican Barry Goldwater, Mr. Conservative, lost in a landslide in 1964 to Lyndon Johnson. But Nixon himself won in 1968 and 1972, the latter in a landslide, by moving to the middle of politics. The flip is true for Democrats. They can’t win without the liberals, but can’t win only with them. Al Gore’s depressing environmentalism in 2000 and Hillary Clinton’s attack on the middle-class “deplorables” in 2008 were losers. But the “triangulation” of Bill Clinton in 1992, the “cool” moderation of Barack Obama in 2008 and the “Working Class Joe” Biden of 2020 were winners. That’s something Gov. Gavin Newsom is ignoring as he looks beyond a likely easy re-election as governor this November toward a presidential run in 2024 or 2028. He seems to think the …