@HakeemG @IanHill Mamdani is actually an exception in my book. He got in there and is attacking the problems of New York quite aggressively. AOC and Bernie Sanders are in that bucket as well. It's why these specific politicians attracted so much attention to begin with - they were refreshingly driven to address the problems that bother people.
But where things slow down, they really slow down. California is not holding our tech companies accountable, for example.
The talk of "moving to the center" does not help when the party is already more conservative than the base would like.