You are right, the vast majority of liberal and leftist politicians are afraid of offending their base, but it's not their voting base. It's their funding base.

You are right, the vast majority of liberal and leftist politicians are afraid of offending their base, but it's not their voting base. It's their funding base. Money drives politics in the US, and that comes from fossil fuels, pharma, defense, banking/finance, tech, and other capitalist interests. It does not come from minoroties or any of their actual voters. Politicians could care less about their constituents, they just need to balance what their corporate backers want against what their constituents want, which is usually very different. So, the root cause lies there. Until we somehow change this, money and corporate interests will continue to rule, at the expense of the people. The longer it goes on without more politicians addressing this, the more people will fall into the right wing fascist trap of blaming immigrants.