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I completely agree on the idea of voting for Harris for harm reduction. But I'm genuinely curious why you think her being elected would put us in a better position to get progressive reform. She showed that she was completely unwilling to back down or change her stance to get elected. Once she had won the election, there really isn't any reason for her to change her stance. Even the idea that she would try to gain popularity to be reelected seems unlikely. Because if we have already proven that we'll vote for someone not because they have good policies, but because they have less bad policies. The next election would be the same. With her most likely running for reelection. And either Trump or some other far right extremist running against her, forcing a repeat of the hypothetical 2024 election where she won.
It's a rather bleak cycle, that makes it frustrating when people constantly hammer against the voters for not holding their nose and voting for the lesser of two evil, rather than the Democratic party in general for not listening to what their constituents want, and changing to a more populist progressive policy. I don't agree with the protest voters, but I can at least empathize and understand where they're coming from.
The really depressing thing is that even after losing because of it, we're still not seeing much of a shift within the party. This should have been a wake up call for them. But it seems they still haven't learned their lesson and seem more intent on using the Republican party as a cudgel to beat the population into voting for them, rather than actually adopting policies that make people want to vote for them.
It would have been used itself as the reason not to listen to leftism since the headline (written by Ezra Klein) would have been "Neoliberalism Shows It Is The Only Winning Strategy For Democrats Again".