Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already.

Biden beat Bernie when it was 1-1 in the primary, Bernie could only win with the moderate vote split. The voters picked.

Everyone knows that Biden isn’t going to follow through on any of the progressive parts of his party platform. We already had eight years of the the Obama bait-and-switch with him as VP. He’s expressed more interest in appointing actual Republicans to his cabinet than doing any of this.

Crucially, though, voter support for progressive policies and for Biden did not necessarily correlate — most significantly in Florida, which Biden lost and where the state Constitution was amended to raise the minimum wage.