As the Kamala Harris campaign lurches rightward, pundits want us to believe she’s just following the will of the voters. The facts don’t bear that out.
The Democrats have been a solidly center-right party for decades. JFK wasn't a leftist! Today, the party has a small left wing, the DSA, represented by people like AOC; but the mainstream of the party remains solidly right-of-center. Democrats support big business, private land ownership, free trade, wage labor, and the rest of the center-right consensus.
The Republicans, however, drifted from "a little bit right of the Democrats" to "for-real fascist" over the course of the Reagan, Bush, Cheney¹, and Trump administrations. Today, the leader of the Republicans is a Hitler fan.
So, as usual, the first-past-the-post voting system sucks utter ass ... but Americans today have a choice between a center-right president and a Nazi president.
¹ Yes, the Cheney administration. Nobody believes Bush Jr. was actually calling the shots.