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The democratic message was less "we offer you nothing" than "nothing will change".
Nothing will change has good sides and bad sides. The bad side is that there are no new radical fixes, just small, incremental changes.
The good side of nothing will change is... well look at the absolute chaos of the Trump second presidency. Installing absolutely unqualified candidates everywhere, the military's first DUI hire for secretary of defence. The absolute destruction of USAID. Musk's chaos putting BigBalls in charge of trillions of dollars of government spending.
(And, as an aside, it's not even true that with the democrats nothing was going to change. Just look at the progress they had been making on antitrust. But, it's true that they were shit at messaging and taking credit for their accomplishments.)
"We offer nothing" and "nothing will change" are fundamentally the same thing when things are objectively bad.
Not when things could get much, much worse.