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What the 2020 campaign showed is that progressives/socialists have basically no reach into the white working class or among black voters. Their agenda doesn't sell there and their language doesn't work. It's a lefty professional class movement for the professional class.
Joe Biden didn't use any of the woke language or racial justice or environmental justice or any of the other crap that academics came up with. He did no 'organizing.' And he crushed Warren/Bernie among black voters.
I've seen lefties fail consistently for fifteen years and it's not a messaging problem. They don't pay attention to commerce or power and instead try new ways of packaging their prior assumptions.
Warren and Bernie had different theories about how to construct a progressive coalition. Both failed. Warren failed in a clownish way, Bernie did better but ultimately still got trapped by wokeness. I don't know that there is a progressive coalition. Honestly not sure what to do.
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