Obama totally ran on left wingism. Healthcare for All and "Change" and all that. That's obviously not how he turned out though.

I guess I agree with you all all the facts but not really the conclusions. If the Democrats wanted to, they could tap into these sorts of movements and win handily. The only supermajority they ever got was on Obama's message. And they just don't!

Biden may be more left wing than any other recent president, but when he was with Obama he was the boring moderate put there to prove Obama wasn't tooo crazy. And I don't know much of him before that but I'm pretty sure he wasn't a socialist.

The Democrats ran Hillary (the apex neoliberal) who was pathetic and then Joe Biden who learned the absolute bare minimum of leftism needed to squeak a victory in the general. Biden also wants a border wall and to mine for oil!

It really feels like the dems are leaning hard into there being only two options: Old-School Republican and Completely Insane Maniac as a way to keep the same failed status quo incrementalism going and its so sad to watch