As a grizzled old socialist, all I can say is that the right wing pendulum has been swinging this way since the Reagan era.
Ya gotta change the narrative if you want a socialist experiment of any kind here.
The reason Biden didn't get a landslide is two fold:
1) Fascists convinced Cuban Americans and Venezuelan Americans in Dade County that Biden was a socialist. I'll repeat that. Biden. A socialist.
Gotta change the narrative. As long as people get a bad taste in their mouths when they hear the word "socialist", we'll keep banging out politicians from the corrupt system we have.
2) Rural voters keep voting 80-20% for Trump. That can't be all racism. It just can't. They're hurting economically, with no hope. They're becoming the new underclass, doping up on meth and opioids and fast food, and they're angry. I'm not excusing their voting for the Predator in Chief, I'm just saying it is what it is.
If Democrats want to do better, they gotta win the rural areas and stop hoping to eke out these things based on votes from the urban areas.
The solution to urban unemployment and rural unemployment is the same: a WPA 2.0
We need a deeper bench of socialists. Right now, the bench is still pretty empty.
Everyone in this country is a right wing maniac, pretty much.
Ooohing and Ahhing at the jets flying over stadiums, and worshipping the military uniform.