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Name a progressive who is throwing their hat in the ring who can win with no fundraising apparatus set up 4 months before the election.
I'll wait.
Of your requirement is "already throwing their hat into the ring" then of course you're not going to get any replies. No one is going to seriously contest the current president publicly at the moment.
Even if they had thrown their hat in the ring now, they still would have 4 months to out raise and outspend Trump without access to any of the money already raised.
Kamala is the only one with a chance.
Would money raised for Biden not be able to be transferred to the eventual nominee if he steps down? I'm sure they would have access to DNC funds.
They would have access to DNC funding but essentially none of the Biden money that has been raised.
A lot of first-time Trump voters came to him from Bernie. If the media wasn't out to destroy him, his policies are extremely popular.
I don't know about a lot.
If somebody can so easily flip back and forth between democratic socialism and fascism, they are likely an idiot, and I am not sure how many idiots actually supported Bernie. I suspect not as many as the other candidates ran.
I don't think it's all that unexpected that people who are fed up with the system might latch onto radically different (from the status quo) messaging. Wanting any alternative to what has been offered for decades can be understood. It doesn't mean I agree with people who opt for fascism; I simply acknowledge that their desperation for an alternative makes sense even if their choice is counterproductive.
People who can switch so heavily between opposing systems as the surrounding political winds change ate people who have the luxary to do so. The bulk of people who are fascists are almost never poor.