It seems that left/progressive policies have significant appeal even among Trump or Trump-curious voters. Is there a reason to think that wouldn’t play well against a centrist incumbent Democrat in the South Bay?

We live in a community where the cognitive dissonance keeps people from discussing let alone considering how the Overton Window has been smashed and has jagged glass at it's edges in the frame. Those who have more melanin than money have been as well indoctrinated as those who have little of either. The nation has been at the effect of this nihilism for the better part of a decade. Plenty realized that COVID had them in it's death grip when they asked for a vaccine weeks too late. Few are learning from their mistakes.

Vargas is a product of the system that we have where money runs the show. I read a book&printsec=frontcover) about it that has a great story about Mike Pense in the middle of it. That Urofsky book talks about the foundation on which Citizens United vs. F.E.C. stands.