They have called hillary clinton, joe biden, and kamala harris woke and socialists. They will do that to literally anyone. As long as the dem candidates are bad policy communicators those labels will stick and be perceived as negative.
When I imagine such a book, I think of beautiful descriptions of a forest and the things that live there. The weather. The scenery.
The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, it is about a nearish future colonisation of Mars, and Mars is as much a character as any of the humans. He spends a lot of time talking about geology and how they go about the project of terraforming. It does have conflict, and it can be exciting, but a lot it is just people work to solve problems.
Another rec would be The Emerald Mile, by Kevin Fedarko, which is just awesome. It’s about the grand canyon generally, and in particular about the rafting scene there.
I’m not sure it’s logistically feasible even if they really wanted to at this point.
This video is less than 10 mins, and uses pretty rounded off numbers, but it’s very illustrative of the magnitude of guns in america. Even going beyond any other problems that enforcement would have like non compliant sheriffs and organized resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaWQd4njB0