She could've swung for the fences on progressive policies, if she knew she was doomed right? Not like anyone would ever be honest about it, but they ran their perfect centrist anti Trumper campaign and lost which has gotta take the shine off that a little. She could've ran on a Bernie style platform, lost and then they could claim "well see it never works let's never do that again"
I feel like her political background just isn't a "swing for the fences" one, though. The only thing that would've made her lose worse than she did would've been if she was faking it. People might not be smart about policy and whatnot, but Americans can spot a fake 100 miles away.
Trump was never anything but his most authentic self from the moment he rode down that escalator until today.
Harris trying to go fulll Bernie/ Squad would've failed spectacularly. Because that not what she believes in.
I feel like Trump has said a lot of things that he didn't hold himself to, which is kinda fake behaviour. I think I understand what you mean though, even though I struggle to articulate it
No she's not, this would be some weird double bluff play of pretending to be progressive while knowing she's losing in order to lower the already low cachet of progressive electoral politics