This type of thing would honestly work w a figure like pritzker I think. He reads as a stereotypical Chicagoland guy, at least from outside the region. I dont think the monster truck thing would fit but something close.

She needs to stay the hell out of our city and our business.

Like Sanders is fairly effective because he rhetorically centers kitchen table issues for working class families. But he generally maintains solidarity with people who current Republican leadership actively marginalize.

I think this gets tricky when you consider what "purity test" labels have traditionally been used to stigmatize - abortion rights and glbtq rights. Especially now, I'd be very hardpressed to support candidates who did either. There can be a question of emphasis in rhetoric and lead positions though.

A better framing might be a search for new tools. And you are a very very good tool builder.

Your work is inspiring, and even if you have trouble hoping right now, remember that you and your brother still inspire hope in others. If it helps, there's a very pithy summary of Spinoza's general advice I think from Deleuze - neither hope, nor fear, only a search for new weapons.

Better pollingvand analysis generally suggests widespread support in the US for left economic policies and more conservative tendencies on social and cultural issues. So you campaign hard in the economic issues to get people to accept the social issues that are just. Ie, like the string unions do.