I agree with a lot of this, particularly how the Democratic Party has become out of touch with real, actual needs of the very people at the bottom that they strive to serve.

But if that's what the working class wants, why didn't Yang get a following? Was it because so many of his potential backers were already on the Trump train?

Complicating things is the reality that so much of the working class gleefully labels the progressive economic agenda (unions, $15/hour minimum wage, job protections, etc.) as a communist plot to ruin America. A critical mass of them have a cult-like adoration for the man who, as you said, put his name on the stimulus check that was entirely too small and pushed to "reopen the economy" so business interests could profit... and also so the working class could risk their necks earning their wage while Republicans tried shoving liability immunity down our throats.

Democrats are too concerned with optics and inclusion, absolutely. But are working class voters so stupid that they actually think they're better served by, well, *that*?