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I like to try and believe most people are fundamentally good but your median American is probably casually racist and misogynistic (and all around an ignorant bigot). They don't want to vote for a woman or a POC even if they might not feel comfortable saying that out loud. To their right only gets worse and the population of voters skews right.
Of course the Democrats have no real strategy to get around this issue besides running women or POC with further and further right politics which doesn't seem to be working.
As leftists we recognize that the solution is building a proletarian class that can either correct the politics of the average proletariat here or crush the proletariat's enemies here. There's no magic candidate we can run that will attract masses of workers because there are very few people who self identify as workers in any meaningful sense.