Yes the party platform contains excellent economic issues that poll high among both Democrats but also Republicans.
The problem is when they are in office the economic policies are immediately tossed aside in favor of social issues and then even those issues become a struggle and we end up with virtue signaling. Voters can only take enough failures until the Democratic "brand" is destroyed among a generation.
>Democrats have long campaigned on raising the minimum wage.
Early 2021: Democrats tried to attach a $15 minimum wage to the COVID relief bill (the American Rescue Plan) using the budget reconciliation process.
Feb. 25, 2021: The Senate parliamentarian ruled the $15 provision violated the Byrd Rule so it cant be included in reconciliation
Mar. 5, 2021: Sanders offered an amendment to put $15 back in -> failed with 8 Senate Democrats joining Republicans to block it.
At that point, Biden did not try to overrule the parliamentarian and the Senate did not change the filibuster to pass a standalone wage bill.
So...what ~4 months into office the pledge was tossed in the trash?
I guess Trump has them beat this term in tossing pledges in to the trash but in Trump's first term he actually threw some of his voters a bone and got things done (repealed roe v wade, tried to build the wall etc.)...actually now that I think about it, he is actually making his most vile voters happy (deportations and increased problems for his voters enemies I guess?) but the "America first" stuff hasn't panned out yet...those voters are unhappy.
When it came time to raise the debt ceiling during Biden's term(ie. to help the donor class), all of a sudden there is no problem whatsoever.
Repeat this over decades and for every issue that could help normal Americans boom you end up where we are.
The problem is when they are in office the economic policies are immediately tossed aside in favor of social issues and then even those issues become a struggle and we end up with virtue signaling. Voters can only take enough failures until the Democratic "brand" is destroyed among a generation.
>Democrats have long campaigned on raising the minimum wage.
Ok lets take this as an example.
Biden campaigned on it in 2020:
[0]: https://x.com/JoeBiden/status/1303056694360944640 [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6BmQU9ZwlY
Early 2021: Democrats tried to attach a $15 minimum wage to the COVID relief bill (the American Rescue Plan) using the budget reconciliation process.
Feb. 25, 2021: The Senate parliamentarian ruled the $15 provision violated the Byrd Rule so it cant be included in reconciliation
Mar. 5, 2021: Sanders offered an amendment to put $15 back in -> failed with 8 Senate Democrats joining Republicans to block it.
At that point, Biden did not try to overrule the parliamentarian and the Senate did not change the filibuster to pass a standalone wage bill.
So...what ~4 months into office the pledge was tossed in the trash?
I guess Trump has them beat this term in tossing pledges in to the trash but in Trump's first term he actually threw some of his voters a bone and got things done (repealed roe v wade, tried to build the wall etc.)...actually now that I think about it, he is actually making his most vile voters happy (deportations and increased problems for his voters enemies I guess?) but the "America first" stuff hasn't panned out yet...those voters are unhappy.
When it came time to raise the debt ceiling during Biden's term(ie. to help the donor class), all of a sudden there is no problem whatsoever.
Repeat this over decades and for every issue that could help normal Americans boom you end up where we are.