Maybe Iowans are just rejecting the lefts agenda and ideas.
Because a lot of Iowans live in an alternate reality, they assume that the lefts agenda is having children be groomed by transgender Furries who are also members of antifa and were primarily responsible for the attempted coup d’état on January 6, and who intend to turn every public school into a permanent drag show.
In reality, progressives want human rights, women’s rights, fair wages, sustainable policies, a livable environment, and good quality of life, not the corporate hellscape that corporate funded propaganda machines are helping to create, distracting everyone with culture war issues.
The right wing is so good at marching in fascist lockstep, and moderates and progressives, because the world is actually a complicated place, haven’t been able to accomplish very much significantly because we are all under the delusion that neo liberal capitalism, or capitalism itself, ever supported or will ever support an actual democracy. It never did and it never will.
to quote a fake liberal from Arkansas who became president in 1992: It’s the economy stupid.
it’s the economic system, actually.
Clinton and every other Democratic elite knows that it’s not the economy, but it’s the economic system that cannot be sustained in its current form any longer, at least without destroying our democracy and our environment and setting us into Civil War. However, the establishment Democrats and all of the Republicans are so sold out to the corporations, they’ve actually given up on democracy decades ago. We need a new system, economic and political, if we have any hope. We need fundamental reform.