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It's like Thomas Friedman's own paper is trolling him. The reason the Times doesn't fact check the op-eds is because if they did, he'd have nothing to write about. Check out the lede in his column v. a Times story on new polling that disproves his core argument. #pairedtexts 
Friedman claims voters are shocked by how far left the Democratic proposals are. Voters, in reality, embrace them. They're concerned that they won't play well politically. The messaging has to focus not only on how the policies will work, but that they are indeed popular.
The dysfunction of politics in general and Trump in specific have made people believe that change isn't possible, even though a majority embrace change. Thomas Friedman's argument is flat wrong that those policies are alienating voters.
