On the one hand, the electorate isn't progressive enough for the aggressive pols we need. On the other, the centrist Dems who can win are suffering PTSD from decades of getting shellacked anytime they enact any policy, even if that policy is coopted from the fucking Heritage Foundation.
In the end we get the representation we deserve, and a majority of the people in a majority of the surface area of this country (and remember, that is what matters according to our demi-god founding fathers) do not like progressives. The why doesn't matter. They just don't.
If we are to return from the precipice it will be because the dumbasses that remained "independent" after Trump was elected see the light. Unfortunately that means nominating more Biden's, which means more orderly retreat.
On top of the ideological/rural problem, add in this nonsense:
Yes, it's unseemly to fundraise off of bodily autonomy. Sure, the Dems are inept as fuck. But guess what, your house is on fire, and you're yelling at the firefighters for trampling your azaleas while they struggle with antiquated equipment procured by a government that thinks only God should put out fires. $15? Your rights are under attack by folks with a $15 billion war chest, and they're counting on you asking for Dems to be ideologically pure, to accept and abide by the niceties of a long-dead style of politics and they're going to make banning abortion look liberal by comparison to their future acts of hatred.
Time and again Dems say, THIS group of young people will vote. THIS generation gets it. Fuck no they don't. They're as naive and stupid as every generation before. They will get distracted and not vote, or get enchanted by the next Nader/Jill Stein or vote Trump/Desantis because Dems only agree with them 92% of the time and "you've got to send them a message."
Dems will lose Congress in '22, and have, at best, a 30% shot at losing the WH in '24.
Right now the constitution is holding this country back. But, I guess if rural America changes its mind about blacks, gays, guns, unions, abortion, misogyny, immigration, climate change, and democracy itself, we can move forward without structural change to our form of government. Might as well ask aggy to fuck only bipeds and ou to not suck.