this won't happen. people are different, the west is different, and the world has moved on. the old coalition members are changed, and mostly diminished in number and influence, and the new potential partisans often want different things. this isn't unique to the center-left

but it's particularly bad for the center left, which is a victim of its own overreach and incompetence. bastions in the exostate are on the ropes. private sector unions barely exist and they're populist right by disposition. public sector unions? state bankruptcy looms

the tech world, which was the center left's brightest or at least most potent new member during the 10s, has lurched right. journalism is broke and divided and cowed. meanwhile the identitarian left that it had hoped to co-opt or nurture has broken free like some freak monster

what issues from the old platform are left for the center left? sexual liberation? in the middle of a TFR crisis and a loneliness epoch and a white hot reaction against trans issues? welfare expansion? western states are broke hating america? coopted by the far left

tacit support of communism is still available, but it doesn't get as much traction now that you can be openly communist on the left i suppose there's still smug contempt for one's fellow man but tbqh that just doesn't play the same after the COVID debacle

@ZeldaEnthusiast like roughly during the awokening the environment was practically cultural revolutionary now often political discussion is banned at the office, but if you go out for a smoke at an offsite you might encounter (eg) an indian engineer who volunteers himself as a maga enthusiast

@ZeldaEnthusiast but it was real bad for about ten years entire slack channels and projects and orgs at large companies dedicated to the most deranged leftist shit you can imagine and if even looked at these people the wrong way your job was on the line