It’s easy to point and laugh at this, but the fact is that the Dems ran a poor campaign because they completely failed to reach out to voters like this.

The Dems absolutely ran a poor campaign, but not because voters like this are at all reachable. I know these people. I grew up with these people. There is no magic spell you can recite to get them 'on your side'.

The left need to figure out how to harness this anger rather than laughing at it. Otherwise we’re (even more) fucked.

These people are not just one or two good facts away from voting left. Their entire worldview is fucked; evidence does not lead to a conclusion, their conclusions lead them to evidence. In the Trump years, things were getting worse, but these same people praised Trump's shit to high heaven like it smelled of roses. When things get worse over the next four years, the conclusion will not be that Trump is bad; it will be that Trump has fought so hard for them.

Fuck's sake, I remember in the Obama years these same people praising the ACA and then sneering at Obamacare; when it was pointed out that they were one and the same, they would shrug and make some mealy-mouthed excuse about how Obamacare 'accidentally' benefitted them and then go right back to their double-fucking-think. Promising to improve or actually improving their lives does not matter to them.

It astounds me that people will condemn the Dems (rightly) for trying to appeal to mythical moderates, and then immediately claim that the left should be appealing to mythical moderates instead. The Dem campaign failed because they're incompetent and out of touch, and because of that, failed to motivate left-leaning voters. Not because swing voters turned against them, not because fence-sitters were driven off by their milquetoast bullshite, not because moderate conservatives could be reached with the appropriately phrased left-populist economic policy. Because the Dems failed their base. And while I have repeatedly said that this is no excuse for any of the twats that stayed home and let fascism win, it is a path and a strategy forward - for Dems (or another party, if we can hack it) to learn that caution doesn't mean jack-shit and elections are won by enthusiasm, not compromise.

They don't understand or care why things have gotten worse over the last four years

Obviously, it's because Biden pressed the "make things worse" button instead of the "make things better" one. Probably did it on purpose too!

but the fact is that the Dems ran a poor campaign because they completely failed to reach out to voters like this.

Bullshit. Give it up already. The Dems ran a campaign for literate people with half a lick of sense and lost by getting .2% more of the vote.

Lefties (which I thought I was until they told me I wasn't) are so fucking stuck in the Democrats Suck, just like the GRU told them, and have zero plans to unfuck us from any situation in four years. This is going to be great.