The level of not understanding how American electoral politics actually work here is depressing. The GOP doesn't need any of this to be releected. Public support for relief leads to no change in how people vote. GOP support on issues runs against McConnell not allowing a vote. https://twitter.com/BenSpielberg/status/1343023964528918529

People "support" all sorts of things. They support unions and vote in anti-union politicians. They vote in a $15 minimum wage and the legislators will who overturn it. They support legal weed and the politicians who will fight it. Etc.

What so many of these, frankly, shallow leftists who think they have electoral politics knowledge fail to understand that is there is a huge disconnect between what people say they want and how they vote.

I don't have any easy answer for this, but I am also very much not saying "If only people did exactly what I think they should do, then we would win." Because a) that's super arrogant and b) why on earth would we think that I know anything at all? Or you do? Or anyone?

Moreover, all of this stuff from Spielberg and others just totally ignores the power of racism in all of this. Whites may say they want relief, but they are damn skippy not going to vote for someone who they think is going to give it to Black people too.

And any analysis of American politics, including current electoral politics, that fails to consider white supremacy at the center of it, is fatally flawed.