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Didn't Bernie Sanders win the California primary in 2020? Seems like he'd need a lot of leftist voters to pull that off.
Once bitten, twice shy
Meanwhile, on the Right: "once bitten, BITE HARDER". So they win elections while you run away.
There's a couple of levels to this. On one level, I think conservatives do - in fact - deliver some promises. If you like twelve lane highways and ranch style suburban homes and ground beef that's cheaper by the pound than broccoli? Good news. When Republicans take office, you can consistently bank on getting a couple hundred dollars worth of tax cuts, as part of their multi-billion dollar tax cut package. If you're in a religious organization the party favors, you can expect all sorts of kickbacks via Faith Based Initiatives and ~~Parochial~~ Charter School Vouchers. If you're a bigot, your governor will inflict all sorts of misery on minorities and the LGBT community. Police will parade through the streets in giant military convoys, showing off all their latest gear paid for with inflated budgets.
On another level, I think they get a certain amount of psychic agony inflicted on them while Democrats are in office. Right-wing news functionally terrorizes their own viewers until their guys win, and this creates a kind of pavlovian response. If you don't want to see wave after wave of disturbing images on the TV, elect Republicans.
I think Democrats are mastering the latter, while neglecting the former. And that's why you've got folks on Lemmy shitting themselves in horror over a future Trump administration, without really having anything tangible to look forward to under a second Biden term.
Democrats deliver plenty but messaging is awful. Biden has canceled $138 billion in student loan debt. Billion. That's with him using whatever executive resources he can after Supreme Court obstruction. Where's the news articles on that? You see people on this very site saying he promised to forgive student loans and then abandoned that promise (while gleefully laughing and twirling his moustache, because he just loves being evil).
Democrats deliver a lot more than Republicans. Republicans scuttled their own border security deal because they didn't want to give Dems a win.
Biden is administering a policy going back to the Reagan Era of 20-year sunsets on student loan debts. The new debts he's cancelled are in the billions, not the hundreds-of-billions. And this, in a pool of over $1.6T. I know a few people carrying student debts. None of them are applauding Biden right now. None of them are seeing their debts cancelled.
Democrats will tell you they delivered $800B in Medicare spending in 2023, when they just signed bills to cut physician pay by 2%/year. They publish walls of tiny-text claiming credit for everything from the Civil Rights Act to the latest private uptick in new clean energy infrastructure and get angry when you notice how the former has been gutted and the latter has nothing to do with their latest round of legislative/executive policies.
Trump put his fucking name on the stimulus checks he sent out in 2020.
Biden put his name on sunsets to the Child Tax Credit three years later, with some campaign promises to renew them (if Dems can retake the House AND the Senate AND Joe Manchin/Kristen Sinema don't block anything) maybe some time in 2025.
See, this is where a republican would go "fake news" and just continue crowing about how awesome his party is.
A low info leftist will take what you say at face value and hate Biden.
A normal liberal will say I'm sure that's incorrect or misleading, because I know your agenda and you fucks always lie, but I have a real job so I can't get bogged down in it right now.
A Biden stan will say nothing, because they don't exist because Democrats don't work like that.
MSNBC is full of them.