I remember Yang well from the primaries leading up the 2020 election, and he was affable enough in those events even though he never received serious consideration. The UBI ideas were something that I am for, for example. However, most of his other ideas are bordering on nonsensical to the point that most political commentators consider him a bit of a joke. His futuristic techfix for everything outlook echoes views of other more nefarious libertarians like Theil and Musk. He is not the answer, no matter how many times he is on Fox.
But that does hit on a point of disagreement I have you, and that is that dems political time and capital should be spent on the brocasts and fox in an effort to try win back a few wavering voters. I don;t agree this is the way to do it. And this goes to the heart of why Democrats do not sweep the board at most elections when their record in government compared to the gop says they probably should.
Firstly, the right played the long game. They own the megaphone more or less in every media space now. Bar a few independent outlets and orgs everything the US hears is through this rightwing filter now. Talk radio, TV, social media, podcasts, and most of MSM are all under their dominion. They've comprehensively own the message delivery system and spin it to their advantage every time. You agree that Biden was a good president, and bar a few things, he was. But he got no credit for it and most voters had no clue how good his policies were. Dems are not good at taking credit for their good work. They believed people would see what they did and approve of it. Er, no they won't if they don;t know about it.
Biden did stay way too long in the race, and that was one reason Harris lost. But the most consequential reason was her loss of the progressive vote. She didn't lock in the progressive base and millions who previously voted for Biden stayed at home. These were engaged voters who were watching her utterances and didn't like what she was saying (or not saying) on topics they were passionate about. She spent too much time trying (and failing) to court wavering right-wing voters in an effort to peel them away from Trump. A fatal strategy in the end.
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