1000% agree. There was a serious of images of Fox News voter analysis polls that made the rounds in social media. The results are here: https://www.foxnews.com/elections/2020/general-results/voter... .
The vast majority of these answers show broad support for Democratic priorities. I mean "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Changing the health care system so that any American can buy into a government-run health care plan if they want to" got 70% "strong" or "somewhat" support. 71% support giving a pathway to apply for legal status to illegal immigrants, vs. 29% in favor of deportation. "Do you favor or oppose each of the following? Increasing federal government spending on green and renewable energy" got 68% in favor.
And this is a Fox News poll. In poll after poll when you ask what policies people want, they lean strongly toward Democratic priorities.
Ultimately politicians on both sides walk a tightrope of how much they can sell out against how unpopular and unelectable they want to be. The races are always close almost everywhere as politicians optimize their corruption budget.
Though I agree with you, it is very unfortunate. Climate change is going to effect the less well off the worst; we're all going to be affected. For instance: this report from Brookings goes into the effect hurricanes have on the poor, and it does not spell out a rosy picture:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2017/09...
Also, I don't see how the president's behavior has anything to do with a nation uniformly shifting towards authoritarianism. The president is but one person in the government, and some would argue not even the most powerful. Re-orienting an entire country's alignment requires much more than a handful of idiotic tweets.
Trump was claiming election fraud before a single ballot had been counted, repeatedly insisted that the only way he would lose the election is via fraud, and has had multiple cases dismissed due to the simple matter of not presenting any evidence.
That's how Trump is different, since you asked.
FWIW, that's not true, or more accurately is unknown.
Those numbers come from election-day exit polling, and since many more Democratic voters voted by mail or voted early than Republican voters, exit polling skews Republican in 2020.
It would be quite interesting to see if those numbers hold up when corrected for the percentage of Democratic mail-in voters, but I don't know of anyone who has done that yet.
Proportions are harder to pin down, as an accurate "X%" necessarily requires knowing the full set (or at least a random sample, and votes are being counted as they come in rather than in a random order).
However, since exit polling only counts those who vote on election day, and far more Democrats voted early or by mail than Republicans, we don't know to what extent those numbers are representative of voters as a whole.
I'd love to see that analysis, but AFAIK no one has done it yet.
> ... as the US continues a degradation of democratic ideals and moves closer to authoritarianism.
That depends on what Republican wins. Not all Republicans are Donald Trump-style authoritarians. (For that matter, Obama did quite a bit of rule-by-executive-order, too. If we want that to change, we need to fix the dysfunction in Congress. Presidents more and more almost have to rule by executive order, because Congress has become more and more unwilling or unable to actually do its job.)
The last week of falling behind Trump in that massive election fraud occurred (without any evidence) shows that the GOP is the party of Trump whether they like it or not.
Thinking anything else is delusional.
Perhaps not all, but I've been pretty shocked, and dismayed, about how feckless Republican senators and congressmen have been when it comes to pushing back against Trump's most dictatorial impulses. It's like "Profiles in Cowardice". That's actually what scares me the most, how someone with such transparent disdain for democracy as Trump has managed to get the Republican congressional leadership to rollover and be his lapdog.
You mean this total, fraudulent tool who claimed to invent email long after it was in widespread use, and spread completely baseless bullshit conspiracy theories in the past?
1. I agree with the article that the left is much too focused on the "white supremacy" narrative around Donald Trump. I used to buy into this hardcore, but Trump increased his votes among both blacks and hispanics in 2020 compared to 2016. Ignore that fact at your own risk.
2. I don't have much hope that the Democrats are going to do much to meaningfully reach out to the working and rural classes. One of the first things I saw that Biden is pushing is climate change goals with various federal agencies. While these are noble goals that I agree with, let's be clear: the working and rural classes (generally) don't give 2 shits about climate change. In many of these places oil jobs are the only good jobs left (I firmly believe this is why Biden did so poorly with South Texas hispanics), and without messaging how we'll invest in these communities, climate change rhetoric will fall on deaf ears.
My prediction: Democrats will get killed in the midterms and will lose in 2024, to everyone's detriment as the US continues a degradation of democratic ideals and moves closer to authoritarianism.