Why the right wins all the time--they have a large, well-funded, PERMANENT network of organizations and institutions continually preparing to take advantage of opportunities to advance their agenda. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-conservative-networks-backing-anti-quarantine-protests/2020/04/22/da75c81e-83fe-11ea-a3eb-e9fc93160703_story.html

Such opportunities may be brief and therefore must be exploited for political gain very quickly. Having a permanent network of allies allows the right to do that. The left always starts from ground zero, must gear up from scratch, often at higher cost.

Of course, by the time the left finally gets geared up, the political winds may have shifted and the opportunity is lost. And for reasons I have never understood, when movements arise on the left spontaneously, such as OWS, the left's establishment squashes them.

By contrast, when the right is presented with a spontaneous movement such as the Tea Party, it embraces it and takes control of it. The members are brainwashed into becoming cannon fodder for right-wing goals completely unrelated to the original movement.

Again, the left never does this. Progressive groups tend to stay in their lanes, seldom offering assistance to other organizations that may, temporarily, have the wind at their backs. Hence opportunities to advance a progressive goal are often wasted.

I look around now and am just amazed at how the left is missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to shows the utter bankruptcy, the total inhumanity of the right-wing worldview. The right's policies are literally killing people by the thousands. The left should be in ascendancy.

Instead, the right still essentially controls the national conversation, while the left is on the defensive. Instead of debating why the government isn't doing its job properly, all we talk about is ending the quarantine so that thousands more will die unnecessarily.

If Democrats can't win a life-or-death fight when they are on the side of life and the GOP is literally on the side of death, I despair that Democrats are capable of capitalizing on any set of circumstances, no matter how much in their favor.