Yes. Democrats are always the instigators of their own defeats.

Republican Lite is not an effective platform. How many times must we continue to learn this? We have the right to live in an unfucked climate. Run on universal rights. The right to clean air, clean water and land, equal rights across the gender spectrum (ERA has never fucking passed even with majority dems in congress and in the executive), right to healthcare, right to accountable justice against corporations, right to be whoever we are, right to hug and kiss which ever consenting adults, right to walkable livable neighborhoods, etc etc.

Instead we get an oppositional party that can only see themselves through the lens of the RNC. We get a party that coopts and defangs the language of progressive and social movements laundering them through corporate approved hoops to lure us in time and time again.