You misunderstand.
Like or not, Trump and the 'alt-right' movement pulled that window FAR to the right in a few shorts years after it had slow-boiled to the left for 30+ years. We're now in a situation where the country is divided by two peoples -- two windows. Liberals (collectivists) freaked out and pulled that window 100x harder in the past 4 years, alienating most, and the rest reacted by rejecting it and 'walking away' to the right (traditional Americana).
We now live in the duality of appealing to either full communism or ethno fascism. There is a sizeable group in the center, but they are not leftists.
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