I'm not sure that I agree with that assessment. Sure, there's a lot of selfishness going on here, but a good deal of the spread is the result of relatively humble people ignoring desperate efforts by the scientific jet-set crowd to get them to do things.
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The well for broader public safety measures was poisoned very early on, by trusted elites, both in their direct messaging and in their refusal to countenance serious financial support for the public at large. It's not reversible now but that's their fault and in their interest.
Except that a good chunk of congress was trying to get broader financial support for the public at large. They just couldn't get it done because 1/2 of 1 branch of government isn't enough. It isn't that they didn't try
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And there's no part of 'fighting harder' that's going to enable a party without the presidency or a senate majority to pass things. It isn't an issue of zeal, but of numbers and seats.
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And I think here counting the demos out of the whole thing is also a mistake. The guy largely responsible for poisoning the well was selected by the red-team demos against the advice of the red-team elites. Those elites were, in 2016, really clear they didn't want him.
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That's the half of Congress that's *very slightly* more responsive to the needs of the non-wealthy. If the state as a whole were responsive to those needs they would have succeeded, but it isn't, and so things that don't serve those needs don't get done.
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And I emphasize *slightly* because most Democrats are also disproportionately beholden to the wealthy and this is reflected at every level of government.
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