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That's my point. The Dems will go all-in on political goals that are orthogonal to those things the electorate wants and cares about. They will thus not be able to make the median voters feel represented effectively.
I don't think there will be much substantive policy made, and as you indicate many things will get worse from an affordability point of view (modulo AI doing some cool stuff). And thus in two years, there will be an even more frustrated electorate that may be heavily regretting their last decision.
The one thing they might actually get around to doing is blatant handouts of one form or another as a means of 'easing' economic struggles.
Trump himself already set the precedent by offering to cut everyone a $5000 cheque if they vote Repub.
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Handouts are the kind of solutions that buy votes in the short-term but does nothing to solve problems. It’s part of the American art of playing political football. It’s why you see things like officials turning about once they’re out of office and supporting all the things the people are really interested in, now that they’re out of power and don’t have to worry about it. Same reason you find people in the energy markets doing PR stunts to put on a good face to public by “supporting carbon taxes” (because they knew they’d never happen). We don’t fix problems, we paper over them.
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