As the Kamala Harris campaign lurches rightward, pundits want us to believe she’s just following the will of the voters. The facts don’t bear that out.
The Democrats have been a solidly center-right party for decades. JFK wasn't a leftist! Today, the party has a small left wing, the DSA, represented by people like AOC; but the mainstream of the party remains solidly right-of-center. Democrats support big business, private land ownership, free trade, wage labor, and the rest of the center-right consensus.
The Republicans, however, drifted from "a little bit right of the Democrats" to "for-real fascist" over the course of the Reagan, Bush, Cheney¹, and Trump administrations. Today, the leader of the Republicans is a Hitler fan.
So, as usual, the first-past-the-post voting system sucks utter ass ... but Americans today have a choice between a center-right president and a Nazi president.
¹ Yes, the Cheney administration. Nobody believes Bush Jr. was actually calling the shots.
I'm banking all my hope on Harris winning, and then Dems either take the House and hold onto the Senate, or more likely Dems retake the Senate in 2026 and also keep the House then.
Edit: Worth nothing that the reason for the Dems shift to the right is due to the how the Electoral College works, and which would require a constitutional amendment to abolish.