That narrative would have never worked. Who would it cater to? There are no moderate republicans for democrats to cater to. just look at the Lincoln project and how utterly ineffective they were at changing the republican party's mind. The entirety of it still voted trump and biden only won by a hair.
Nah, biden is a corporate hack who wants the party's left wing to sing him songs and praises over him not being trump. Which is far away from even the bare minimum... And biden will join the republican party while president of the US before catering to the progressive wing now that he is president. If he didn't cater to them before then now he doesn't even need them, he is already president. Heck, biden in his own brand of hillary-esk idiocy ran on working with republicans. Meaning he has placed himself in a situation where he is to some extent accountable to them while at the same time the republican party will never under any circumstances make concessions to him.
I mean, it did work.
Biden won the election and he won by getting more white and old voters who would usually vote republican than Clinton did. He could have instead catered to the left, but I don't think that would have worked. Even if they all wanted to vote for him (and most of those who were registered did), voter suppression would not enable biden to win with just the youth vote.
Just like sanders could not win against clinton or Biden.
I think it is pretty unfair to call Biden a coprorate hack or whatever. Biden first and foremost has the aim to get the country back to at leas the smallest consensus. In his opinion (and mine too) it would be counterproductive to embrace stuff like defund the police or far left leaning tax plans right now or before the election.
The republican propaganda DID work a lot. Just not with Biden. It worked and almost lost democrats a house win, even tho they outspent their republican opponents.
It just didnt work with biden because he avoided the left the best way he could.
Biden already did a lot of things right, but his task is very, very hard. Especially should georgia not get two blue senators. Because in that case, republicans have a say about his cabinet.