No I'm saying what is realistically going to happen and why. There's a reason so many people who are either moderate or on the left have completely tuned out of electoral politics and that's many decades in the making. The party has literally abandoned the working class, they don't do **** for unions or labor or poor people, Bill Clinton's admin basically just sold the poor people out during his administration as did Obama during the housing crisis (we all saw what happened to black wealth during that time and why) and all the hope and change rhetoric went out the window the second he got into office and brought the Citibank board into his cabinet. On the right they have the infrastructure built via terrestrial radio, cable news, and now facebook where they can just scare their rube voters into voting but that same fear doesn't resonate with the center/left nearly as much and the $$$$/infrastructure isn't quite there either.
Heck, I don't think I even voted in 2014 because I was renting, didn't have my license up to date with my new address, and nobody was home to vouch for me to go vote and the utilities weren't in my name. And I wasn't dirt poor, lived in liberal MN where it's relatively easy to vote, rather than say a poor person from Alabama where you have to go 50 miles outside the city on the third weds of the month during work hours to get your voter ID and somehow do it via public transit. And I'm someone who's relatively well educated and saw the importance of voting just to avoid another Bush II or worse.
If those people think their vote is just going to go to some snake oil salesman who is barely better than a Republican they're just not going to vote, they deem it not worth their time because things likely won't change for the better (and let's be honest, they didn't under the regimes mentioned and Clinton got lucky with the tech boom). Christ my brother is a doctor and has gotten completely apathetic about politics, pretty sure he voted for Gary Johnson while living in WI in 2016. Obviously people who are super tuned in to politics and discuss it online or whatever know the importance of the Supreme Court and the appointment of federal judges but if you think the average person, even relatively intelligent ones, get the importance of it, you're deluding yourself. You seem to live in some fantasy land where people are just going to magically make these calculations and vote for the lesser of evils when history has repeatedly shown that they haven't. And if you think they're solely to blame for this (and I'm not absolving them of all blame but American exceptionalism is a thing and people didn't think fascism can ever happen here until it did) you're absolving the party of all responsibility for its decades of failure. Which is ludicrous.
