Is the state party turning to the right?

In this New Yorker interview We Are Sleepwalking Into Autocracy, Sen. Chris Murphy says:

[I]t can be true that some of the orthodoxy of the left put us in the position of being unelectable. It is also true that the bureaucracy inside the federal government, the state governments, and local governments has become so big and cumbersome as to make it impossible to get things done in this country. But that is not mutually exclusive with the belief that we have months—not a year—before our democracy is rendered so damaged that it can’t be repaired.

Like Rep. Adam Smith, Senator Murphy partly blames the “far left” for Dems’ election losses.

Murphy suggests that the Democratic Party should be more tolerant/conservative on social issues (guns, gays, trans, immigration, abortion, etc) in order to win more elections. But both Murphy and Smith do recommend populism and leftism on economic issues, in the style of Bernie Sanders.

So, I’m guessing that the decisions of the state Democratic party to downgrade issues caucuses to councils and to welcome in a centrist Christian caucus are part of an effort to turn to the right. They think we’re too far left.