This is accurate right now bc of broad support for college debt erasure, stimmies, and raising min wage; to suggest that all progressive policies share the same level of support is fiction, though, even when their effects would be beneficial. Sucks, but true. 1/2
* Dems win power.
* Moderate Dems refuse to let Dems use power.
* Dems lose power.
* Moderate Dems blame progressives for being too radical.
* ad infinitum
We are at step 2 of the cycle.