Yes even Bernie
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Of course it worsened visibly with Reagan.
Incidentally, I mildly disagree with OP's analogy. Yes, the wheel is turning further to the right, yes, the democrats aren't doing enough to stop or even wheel it back, but there's no spring coil in the wheel, it wouldn't snap back by itself if you removed the blue from the picture. That's bullshit.
It worsened visibly with the dixiecrat switch, because they are a single issue voting bloc (racism).
They actually tried to run as a third party, but the dixiecrat party lost in 48, having failed to spoil truman. Thurmond's speeches here are quite profound.
The problem is that we have a voting bloc that literally wants only one thing, and it's concrete, not a vague notion of Healthcare and reducing income inequality with no concrete steps and massive, united opposing interests.
Maybe get minorities to appreciate how many dixiecrats vote the way they do only because they see non-whites as animals?
Doubtful. I didn't believe it myself till I lived there, the level of hate is just impossible to fathom.
Considering almost every single group of people supports progressive policies, and the fact that the policies that are most important to the median citizen are completely ignored by congress means that yes, if a leftist party was allowed to take power the wheel would snap back very far to the left.