What are you implying with "these policy positions are at odds with power brokers in the USA"? The politician you describe would most likely not win the popular

What are you implying with "these policy positions are at odds with power brokers in the USA"? The politician you describe would most likely not win the popular vote because the most important voting base for most politicians is the 50+ crowd (in the US and most other Western countries) and this demographic wouldn't care too much about these issues. It's really a generational conflict.