Do you want to be Apple or do you want to be Android? Do you to listen to what people want and give them that, or do you want to give people what you think they want?
This isn't a disingenuous questions by the way, because both methods work some of the time.
What never works is trying to do both.
Right now a lot of the Democratic Leadership has this "Trust me, you actually this stuff you don't think you'll will like if you just give it a try" thing going on and they might not be wrong, but they can't just pretend they don't live in a world where ~40% of the voting demographic will literally demonize any idea they have and support the opposite just to be a contrarian troll.
The first problem with that was that, no they are not the same (the ACA keeps the middlemen around whose sole role in the industry is to make it worse, and was deliberately designed explicitly for the purpose of protecting them), and the second is that he wasn't really interested in doing anything about it anyway. Now here we are watching him and most of the rest of his Party demonstrate how much he and they really care about that by how hard they're fighting for health care, and it's utter stillness... during a plague... the plague that got him/them the Presidency even during what was otherwise a losing year for them.
