>>801436the left is more popular than ever, the losers have been liberals and socdems who've (a) been in long term decline anyway and (b) have for the most part brought this on themselves by triangulating rightwards.
the left has failed to make the advancements you'd hope for as a result because it's institutionally incompetent, not because it has hyperfocused on idpol. indeed, plenty of leftand leftish parties that have advanced are at the more "idpol" end of the spectrum. (UK greens, Scottish Greens, Die Linke - despite a split that showed just how badly the anti-woke left does - US greens obviously did badly but doubled their vote share and are now the leading third party candidates, Norwegian Labour - woke and surely the only socdems in Europe to still be getting as many votes as in the 1990s… Even the SNP have tested the proposition that if you're progressive-ish you can hold on to your core vote despite wrecking campaigns and fucking up literally every possible way.), being socially progressive and economically left wing are positively correlated. (Of course they are! Of course "better things are possible" as a belief system applies everywhere! "Better things are possible in that we can nationalise steel, but if you think for a second I'm going to respect a foid or a injun you've got another thing coming" - Mean! not a winning message!
And that's before we get into the desirable long term configuration of the left's voter coalition (do you know what older voters like to do, other than back Hitlerism? They like to die of old age. In Britain, more 2019 Tory voters died before the 2024 than switched to voting Labour!)
When the bourgeois press tell you state control of trains is a vote loser you know it's bollocks, you have to be pretty naive to take them at face value when they then go "oh, Kamala lost because she was for they/them, not because she failed in basically all conventional election strategizing and alienated a chunk of her own constituency by not distancing herself from genocide" (Palestine is a fun one, isn't it? Schrodinger's idpol, sometimes "anti-imperialism", sometimes a distraction from the all important cause of giving treats to nasty little boys who post on leftypol.org)