A bit of a rant but mostly on point: the left has never been as big a part of the Democrats as the conservative has taken over the GOP but they are not only the loudest voices and can, in truth, be as nasty and bigoted towards their opposition as the right can. You also left out how Kamala's closign argument in 2024 was just a variation of the Democrats for eight yeats: no sane person would vote for Donald Trump. In eight years they have made no effort to understand, much less win over the Trump voter and have increasingly leaned in to proudly being the party of the urban, coastal elites, proudly looking down at flyover country, dismissing entire sections of the nation as places 'nobody lives' and arguing that only an antiquated electoral system led to Republicans winning in 2016 and as far back at 2000. The left is as much a party of elites as they argue the Republicans are - they are merely a party of maybe the top ten percent rather than the top one. pERHAPS the biggest giveaway came when George Clooney wrote an op-ed demanding Biden withdraw admitting that his sole qualification was that he'd raised a lot of money for Democrats. hOW can we even claim to be the party of the working class after that? And yet for the next six months the Democrats did what they have done for fifty years and doubled down on being the party of celebrities. How can any working person claim to take us seriously if Taylor Swift and Oprah are telling us that Elon musk doesn't know what's best for the country but they do?

The left will do - is doing- what it always does. Blaming racism, sexism, billionaires, everything but look in the mirror. I have some ideas on how the Democrats have to move forward from this point on whICH i WILL SPELL out in the new year but the penultimate paragraph in your article is a really good start as far as policy. Don't expect a lot of support for it here, though: the loud, nasty voice of the progressive tens to win out.