As Alex Pareene writes at The New Republic, "Remove affective conservatism — reactionary culture-war-stoking and blunt appeals to white supremacy — from the plutocratic agenda, and well-off liberals may find themselves far more receptive to a right-wing politician." The primary reason President Biden has a rock-solid 54 percent approval rating so far is that he is not Donald Trump. Trump's corruption, incompetence, and wildly erratic behavior deeply alarmed many not-terribly-liberal suburbanites, who were key to Biden's margin of victory. It follows that the Democrats' grip on their coalition, which is deeply split along class lines, depends on fear of Trump (and the numerous Trump-style lunatics who are rapidly climbing the GOP hierarchy). Now, it's true that blue-state governor Romney lost when he ran against Barack Obama in 2012. But this was because of his cartoonishly plutocratic background as a job-killing Wall Street banker, and a hideously unpopular policy platform of, by, and for the top 1 percent. Trump made significant inroads in the working class in part by ditching most of that rhetoric, and both parties have moved away from the neoliberal consensus that was Republican dogma from 1980-2016.