I also don't share your optimism. Like most white liberals you seem to willfully refuse to understand the foundation of Trumpublican\Republican appeal to voters. Specifically WHITE voters.

American politics isn't about ISSUES. No matter how much rational people like you want to pretend it is. American politics is about RACE.

2 out of 3 White Americans voted Trumpublican in 2016, 2020, and 2022. The Trumpublican party is 90% White.

Do you REALLY think those people care about anything other than pushing their agenda of creating a WHITE minority rule, Christian, Nationalist state?

In 1968 Wallace took the White Southern racists out of the Democratic party. He got 13% of the national vote and carried 5 states on an openly racist platform of bringing back "segregation".

In 1972 Nixon welcomed those voters into the Republican party and carried 49 out of 50 states.

No Democratic candidate for President has gotten a majority of the White vote since 1968. Not one.

That should tell you what's REALLY important to voters in America Steve.