I'll agree with you on the 2020 voting laws carrying forward (although I haven't looked into the state laws, especially the red ones to see if those have been repealed yet because that's what tends to happen).

Also agreed on the DNC's and Harris' messaging. I also blame Biden because if we wanted to prepare to fight against Trump in the election where he was his most popular, the Dems would have ran an actual primary.

Definitely agreed too on the general sentiment of Americans supporting leftist policies. We see this with Bashear in Kentucky, and recently the middle wage and abortion policies in Missouri. Although you might be able to balance that by Florida's outcome with their referendums as well as California.

Ultimately it comes down to messaging and optics. Democrats need to figure out a way to package progressive policy in a way that capture the imaginations and hopes of their base while at the same time not scaring those towards the center into believing those same policies are socialist or communist.