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A major failure of US liberalism is a total blindness to enemies. Republicans routinely work hard to reduce the political power of their opposition, quite flagrantly: gerrymandering and the suppression of voters of color is an obvious one, but attacks on science and education also degrade important power bases for the Democrats, reducing the money and resources that can be marshalled for the Dems. Passing laws that make life difficult for queer people has the effect of making queer people move and degrading the resources of queer people, again degrading the power of a Dem aligned bloc. Democrats could very well pursue some weird technocratic stuff that would be hard to recognize as attacks on enemy blocs by most Republicans, but would be very effective. End most farm subsidies, open up community-owned slaughterhouses, legalize direct sales from car manufacturers, regulate supplements into the ground and create massive civil liabilities for supplemental companies, start passing data privacy laws, etc etc. All of these target powerful Republican aligned blocs, blocs that back Republicans basically everywhere at every level, and puts worlds of hurt on them. These are already highly activated blocs, so you're not making news enemies: you're hurting the enemies you have. And this stuff hurts these enemies by protecting the people they're preying on!