On the flip side of this, exit polls showed that Trump and the GOP in general are getting lower income and working class voters in wide margins. Trump got the most POC votes of a Republican candidate since the 1950s. He doubled his support with black voters and everyone is acting SHOCKED that he picked up Latino voters by a wide margin too.
The progressives won mostly in comfy blue states and city councils. They aren't radically taking over the Democratic Party and it's clearly not going to happen. They'll be painted out as white middle class college kids wanting "free stuff" (which let's be real, a lot of leftists that come from privileged income backgrounds literally think that socialism is just when the government does stuff). In this same time span, within 4 years, the Tea Party movement had outright taken over the GOP and had many members in Congress. The old neo-cons like McCain and Romney were just barely hanging on by a thread as the Tea Party swooped up win. The same can't be said for the neolib centrists still in charge of the Democratic party.
Dem party leadership will use this as an excuse to move further right. They have basically re-invented themselves now as the college educated, smug rich people's party. That's what they wanted to become under Biden and they made it very clear with all their ads about him being the "middle class president", a heavy focus on the suburbs and even made snide comments about the "uneducated" being subhuman. They are never going to move left. They'll spent the next 4 years wanting to oust those few progressives in congress, and probably use one of them (AOC maybe?) to run for president and whip up a bunch of support, only to sabotage their movement at the last minute and tell everyone to vote for another milquetoast neoliberal like Biden.
This isn't a fair comparison between progressive and the tea party. The right had been laying the groundworks for a media ecosystem that would allow such a taken over for just over 2 decades before they won this flip. We had hardly any significant left media system before 2016 compared to right now.
People need to toss out this year's exit polls. There is no amount of modeling or regression that can make up for a fundamentally non-random sample. That data is useless.
On the flip side of this, exit polls showed that Trump and the GOP in general are getting lower income and working class voters in wide margins. Trump got the most POC votes of a Republican candidate since the 1950s. He doubled his support with black voters and everyone is acting SHOCKED that he picked up Latino voters by a wide margin too.
The progressives won mostly in comfy blue states and city councils. They aren't radically taking over the Democratic Party and it's clearly not going to happen. They'll be painted out as white middle class college kids wanting "free stuff" (which let's be real, a lot of leftists that come from privileged income backgrounds literally think that socialism is just when the government does stuff). In this same time span, within 4 years, the Tea Party movement had outright taken over the GOP and had many members in Congress. The old neo-cons like McCain and Romney were just barely hanging on by a thread as the Tea Party swooped up win. The same can't be said for the neolib centrists still in charge of the Democratic party.
Dem party leadership will use this as an excuse to move further right. They have basically re-invented themselves now as the college educated, smug rich people's party. That's what they wanted to become under Biden and they made it very clear with all their ads about him being the "middle class president", a heavy focus on the suburbs and even made snide comments about the "uneducated" being subhuman. They are never going to move left. They'll spent the next 4 years wanting to oust those few progressives in congress, and probably use one of them (AOC maybe?) to run for president and whip up a bunch of support, only to sabotage their movement at the last minute and tell everyone to vote for another milquetoast neoliberal like Biden.
This isn't a fair comparison between progressive and the tea party. The right had been laying the groundworks for a media ecosystem that would allow such a taken over for just over 2 decades before they won this flip. We had hardly any significant left media system before 2016 compared to right now.
People need to toss out this year's exit polls. There is no amount of modeling or regression that can make up for a fundamentally non-random sample. That data is useless.