Commiunism

To answer the question, it didn’t make things better, but it didn’t make things much worse either - the status quo is preserved as always. The concentration camps that Trump is boasting about (such as the Alligator camp or whatever it’s called) were previously opened by Biden, ICE was also being maintained to forcefully deport people, Israel is still being funded all the same by the US whether it was Trump or not, the only difference that Trump is being more open about these things and are expanding these operations which isn’t good at all but doesn’t shake the status quo at all.

Harris didn’t address any of these things, in fact she promised to expand on anti-immigration as part of opportunism.

At the same time, that’s the wrong question to ask - merely making things better isn’t enough given how it can always be reversed when wind blows a slightly different way no matter the party. What needs to happen is for the present state of things to change entirely, that’s the only way towards permanent improvement for the majority, which is what I meant in my original comment.

If these are the progressive reformists, then it’s probably time to realize that status quo won’t change if them or DSA were magically put in charge. They’re still part of the ruling class and have their interests, the only way to achieve actual change is via workers themselves organizing and making change happen - that’s the actual role of the left, not praying that some kind capitalist candidate brings about change for them (they won’t as seen historically).

But at the same time, workers aren’t likely to “have enough” and organize on their own, instead opting to keep clinging onto this false hope and keep rallying behind “least bad” option, so the situation is abysmal.