Progressives think the deck is stacked against them. They’re right. The combination of the Electoral College, the unrepresentative Senate, and relentless GOP gerrymandering has made it very difficult for the Democrats to win elections regardless of public sentiment. Then, even if they do, the filibuster prevents them from moving much significant legislation through the Senate, and a right-leaning Supreme Court threatens to invalidate anything they can accomplish. It’s very dispiriting.
For all of this, the left, unlike the right, has shown faith in the system and the rules of the game. How long will that last? Will the evolving majority continue to tolerate minority rule even if it means, for example, that nothing can be done on inequality, guns, and climate change? Will the left simply lie down for an openly insurrectionist GOP in the long run?
I don’t think so.