I wonder if the fact that Dem reticence to put their own successes on blast in plain language combined with the media's tendency to ignore policies that are working (bc boring!) is part of the problem here.
The left is totally useless. Biden gave them everything they wanted and they flaked out as usual.
Massive spending, industrial policy, aggressive anti-trust, tight labor markets, wage compression, pro-union moves both in policy and symbolism. None of it moved the political needle even a little bit in the desired direction--quite the opposite in fact.
We need to break the oligarchy, it's going to be a hard fight until we do. The alternative is eventual violent revolution or violent repression.
My dem friend whose entire family lives in a red Mich area says they all whine about the price of breakfast cereal. There's a real "I got mine/screw you" attitude that progressive econ isn't going to fix.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but this article doesn’t make the point that you’re saying it makes, i.e. that prog economic policy is unpopular with the electorate. No kidding Warren and khan are unpopular with megacorps! But that’s not the general public.
Have you looked at the media lately? Maybe the NYT and the Sunday morning shows? Do you think that might possibly have some kind of effect on public opinion?
When MSM went all in on normalizing the worst of the right, they also muffle achievement of the left. That plus social misinfo is a strong current.
Transitions like that are never fast. I think it's part of why we'll need at least 3 consecutive Dem admins concentrating on making those kinds of changes in the economy to begin the roll back the effect 90s economic policy had on partisan sorting. Didn't help Biden took no credit for what he did do
Ideologues on both sides of the aisle loved to rake Pelosi over the coals, but at least the bitch could count.