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No, we couldn't. The Democratic Party is nowhere near as bad as the Republican party, but it is still interested more in power over governance and is still pretty far right wing (in contrast to much of the industrialized world.

Since Carter, the DNC has added obstructions to the people choosing a candidate out from under them (curiously, what Trump did to the GOP in 2015-2016) because the people only operate as part of the primary vote. About 2000 principle party members (politicians and plutocrats) have votes with extra weight, so you'll never get an AOC or a Bernie Sanders or anyone else that is progressive and likes pushing hard on Green New Deal type policies.

In fact, when Occasio-Cortez primaried an establishment Democrat, the DCCC changed its rules to prevent future young progressives from taking seats from old establishment. (The DCCC undid their changes later, but only due to pressure from within the party.)

Progressives are the red-haired stepchildren of the Democratic coalition. They get to dine at their own table while the big boys sit at the grown-up table. Not because they have bad ideas, but because the rich campaign contributors don't like them much, and don't want to promote people who will push to install social security nets and election reform restoring power back to the public.

Curiously, it's these kinds of policies, social security nets that pull US families away from precarity (job precarity, food precarity, housing precarity, health precarity, etc.) that would pull us from the brink of autocracy, since the lumpen voters (those who can't deduce who serves their best interests) wouldn't be so desperate for change so as to elect a strongman Mussolini wannabe. If everyone weren't one paycheck away from hunger and homelessness, and working dead-end jobs, then Trump and Project 2025 would be getting far less traction.

So in this case, the Democratic party and the neoliberal ideology that directs them enables the rise of the transnational white power movement and the Christian nationalist movement. They are the Neville Chamberlain party and are going to feed us right into the hands of the GOP.

(That said, let us see if Biden finally takes up his newfound unlimited powers, say to assure that GOP anti-voter shenanigans in battleground states -- gerrymandering, voter suppression, misdirection, neighborhood disenfranchisement, intimidation, election tampering, etc. -- are watched for via our surveillance state and neutered in time, as well as any attempts of coups d'etat. Biden says he's counting on voters to exile Trump, but we know how critical voters have been hobbled. OR if Biden wants to be bold, he can use the US anti-terror machine to target, capture and detain critical participants in the capture and coup movement behind project 2025, say all the folks in the Heritage Foundation. We know who they are, and we know they've declared their intention to capture the federal government and repurpose it away from principle US values.)