The Democratic Party has floundered in part because it thought the Obama coalition was cheap to buy off in perpetuity -- i.e., they figured token gestures on climate or LBGT+ rights were sufficient to "own" those voting blocs forever, largely because they don't take younger voters and their issues seriously, and they could go back to doing the bidding of wealthy conservatives at no political cost.
@gwynnion I think they also just figured we had no choice but to vote for them because the alternative was worse so they didn't even need to bother offering us anything
and well we saw how well that plan worked out
@waitworry @gwynnion There was no choice, and the majority made the wrong one because we've been defunding public schools since Reagan and now nobody knows how anything works