I mean, of course you don't get to pass major welfare spending programs AND a total reorientation of the industrial economy AND...
I mean, of course you don’t get to pass major welfare spending programs AND a total reorientation of the industrial economy AND changes to voting systems explicitly intended to nerf one party and buff the other with a bare 50-vote+VP nominal Senate majority, even in parliamentary systems with absolute voting whip loyalty there are feedback mechanisms that prevent that
seems like you nerf the opposition first, if anything
Yeah, I thought the plan should be year 1 pass emergency COVID measures, then do democracy protection stuff (voting rights, anti-gerrymandering, PR statehood) and year 2 every popular policy you can think of (including marijuana legalization and minimum wage increases). People’s memories are short so you want to do the popular stuff right before the election.
If the democracy protection stuff goes well and the popular stuff is more popular than any party’s governing agenda has ever been, then the Democrats would be able to eke out a narrow majority in the next Congress. That’s roughly how tilted the playing field is against them.
Since they’re not doing any of that and just passing regular policies, there’s no chance basically.
Yes, well to part of the Dem base that you know, funds the party’s existence, was an entirely viable Republican constituency in the 1980s and speaks in dollars not tweets (or even votes!) “popular policies” is restoring SALT deductions, keeping schools open, inflation low, running down anyone who badmouths the police, and otherwise replaying 1998