This is what I don’t understand about American politics. It feels like Democrats fight like hell over a very small sliver of the voter demographics who mostly don’t like them anyways, and completely ignore a much larger pool of voters who would be an easier sell.
I feel like the most obvious answer to this one is “capitalism” but it doesn’t really explain to me why the Dems don’t at least just *lie* to appeal to the left.
CA Gov Newsom is pretty much already doing what you suggest. He says he supports universal guaranteed healthcare but arranges for any bill for it to be strangled in committee in the legislature. He says he supports green energy but CA is strangely the only state without a fossil fuel extraction tax.
