The people in the South who voted for Biden over Sanders in the 2020 primary are more moderate voters that aren't down with that super progressive shyt.
Bullshyt that you just made up. The vast majority of Democratic voters agree with Sanders's positions. Actual voters in the South Carolina primary named two major factors behind choosing Biden over Sanders:
1. Clyburn's endorsement
2. They thought Biden had a better chance of beating Trump
Of course, the fact that the media had gone on an ALL OUT blitz against Sanders, falsely calling him a Communist and distorting 40-year-old quotes about literacy in Cuba while ignoring Biden's real-time lies about being arrested in South Africa certainly didn't help matters.
These are the same type of voters in the midwest. Which was proven when Biden beat Sanders in both Michigan and Wisconsin.
You're talking about races that came after everyone already knew the gig was up. If that's "the same type of voters", then why did Sanders beat Hillary in those same states in 2016?
The moderate governor of Wisconsin won re-election in 2022.
Tony Evers is a progressive and Tammy Baldwin is one of the most liberal senators in the country.
If Mandela Barnes had been more experienced, ran a better campaign, and hadn't gotten outspent, he would have had a far better chance to win. He wasn't "too progressive" when his positions aren't even very different from Baldwin at all. Of course, in Wisconsin having a Black face on the ticket might have hurt him as well, something that doesn't hurt Sanders.
The youth vote that didn't turn out for Sanders in the 2020 primary. Right. Because they aren't reliable.
They were fine in the first 3 primaries. They got disillusioned and gave up once it appeared clear that the Democrats were doing everything possible to fix the primary again, just like in 2016. Repeatedly disillusioning young, leftist, and Black voters, and then blaming them when they "aren't reliable", is one of the stupidest fukking moves that the Democratic party has been pulling for the last 40 years. You constantly keep showing them they have nothing to vote for, then mock them when they take you seriously. Remember how strong the youth and left and Black vote was when Obama ran as a progressive? Then what happened to those voters when he turned around and government like every other moderate corporate dem?