I don't disagree. Yet, there's also been a lot of progress in certain areas over that same timeframe. Unfortunately, we're now tipped so far to the right that it's going to take a while to get back to "making progress." This country is not moving to socialism or communism in one election cycle.
This country needs to move to socialism in a hurry or the fascists are going to become even more entrenched than they are now. Never forget that it was the Red Army that took Berlin and liberated Auschwitz before helping the US secure the surrender of Japan.
Defending Newsom, *who actively harms trans people & just launched a literal large scale cleansing of the state of unhoused people, both groups actively dehumanized & targeted by maga* will continue the rightward shift. Look up what he’s recently vetoed: healthcare for teachers. He is right wing.