IIRC when Jeremy Corbyn was up for election, mainstream media eviscerated him as an antisemitic, transphobic bully. Because of shenanigans like this, the public has lost faith in mainstream media. This is in some ways a good thing, since they are corporate sellouts. Unfortunately, when the public loses faith in mainstream media, they trust the "things were good in my father's day, we used to beat women in my father's day" people more than those who want to maintain the existing order.
Saying you will maintain the existing order is a bad strategy in times when people feel like the system is not working for them. While the "left" is attacking it's radicals on behalf of its billionaire donors, only the right is proposing a comprehensive plan for change.
Reactionaries advertise their wealth and say they will make the voters wealthy. I think omnipresent Capitalist propaganda is responsible for eroding our common sense understanding that the rich are rich because we are poor. "The opposite of poverty isn't property. The opposite of both poverty and property is community." Also, it's hard to explain some leftist ideas without a lot of history lessons, like why enforcing many of the laws on the books is bad for most people.
I've seen Harris campaigners refusing to believe voters who told them they were suffering from economic anxiety. I think the "left" should stop being fanatically conservative, and show people we take their concerns seriously by proposing radical policies of our own.
A major portion of the fault for this debacle belongs to the center-"left" and it's willful refusal to understand human nature. Socialists have been telling them for decades that if you strategize against the radical left at every turn, you'll be stuck with the fascists instead. Most of them have been paid off, and the rest just don't listen. They only trust petit bourgeois community leaders and idiotic "experts" who have never once been right in my lifetime.
At first, working class fascists were saying they oppose immigration because the "left" no longer tolerates criticism of tradition and religions. That was back in the day, when the "left" still had some legitimacy. See what the polls are saying about the Democratic Party these days:
https://youtu.be/ZtMyZSj9scM?si=p-RD_t_DoNrQJK9Y
Working class fascists are too far gone now. From outside, the people trapped inside the propaganda network look either like they forget every 5 years (have younger voters forgotten 2008?), or 21st century people are pathologically incapable of believing leftists: Want to create jobs that feed the poor? Don't you know they had bread lines in the Soviet Union??? Relevance and irrelevance are immaterial as long as the conclusion is that leftism can't possibly be right.
