The problem with progressive governance is that when they manage to get a majority they usually try to push through these everything AND the kitchen sink bills that, as you say, check off all the boxes on their agenda.. because everything has to be done NOW, before they lose their majority (and they then wonder WHY they lost their majority).

There is no actual longer view. No understanding that getting a bit today and then a bit tomorrow is more effective than trying to get everything today (and actually getting little or nothing).

There is no understand of or attempt to build a lasting majority through gradual action and actual political LEADERSHIP.

There is no actual unified plan--which is why you get 6 plans that get collapsed into one "must pass" bill--that all Democrats won't vote for unless THEIR little group's thing is there and that other group's thing is not there (or so watered down as to be meaningless).

All of this usually turns into the dumpster fire that we have seen over the last year or so.

Pass functional bills that have necessary things--and make sure understand what necessary means... because apparently progressives have a rather lose definition of that word.

Build a sustained majority on the basis of those accomplishments--making sure that people understand and know about your accomplishments--and the benefits they are getting. make sure those benefits are actual benefits. Beat people over the head with them.

And stop it with the stupid slogans and tone deaf local legislation (like the CA voting law). take a look around you and see where a majority of Americans actually are on those things. If they are not with you, you need to do the groundwork necessary to get them there--and that is not always going to be possible and it is rarely going to be quick.

Learn some effing patience. Yes, there is unjustness and bad things... but it actually takes time and a lot of effort to fix those things (if they ever even get fixed). Slavery existed in this country for almost a century And existed here before the actual country did) before we fought a war to end it. It took another century to get close to actual civil rights for non-whites... and we are still working on it... probably will be for quite some time.

Yes, it is an affront to justice and to morality. It is also simply the way the governance of large diverse groups of people works. People are often neither just nor moral, especially in large groups.

Oh and don't be self-righteous moral a-holes about it--because that won't help your cause much and will probably actually hurt it.

If you want stuff that requires a mandate maybe you should IDK, build an actual electoral mandate? More people would go along if you were smarter about it. Find some central principles and ideas that all "Democrats" are behind and work on THOSE. Keep it simple, direct, and short.

Try some actual salesmanship for a change, don't rely on being a tad less crappy and crazy (arguable at times) than your opponents--because we are already seeing how that is gonna work out.