The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:The Democrats won't go anywhere this decade. They have too much money and power to buy people's thoughts, and when they can't buy your thoughts, they will buy your compliance. If they can't buy that, they'll threaten you and your livelihood. They are snakes in suits pretending to be human beings with empathy and meaningful connections to people around them.
This is too optimistic. Maybe if this was 1988 or even 2002, but the fascist rank-and-file have made it clear that they are not in the mood to continue previous detentes of the Democratic Party. These people didn't in the past have enough power, even under Trump, to enact their wishes. Even at Trump's height of power, he barely had a governing majority and didn't have a governing majority composed of just 'kill all the SJW' fascists. But if the Democratic Party gets destroyed in 2022/2024, there's no coming back. There will be enough 'kill all the SJW' fascists that they can't be put in check by the Roberts types. The rank-and-file fascists are quite aware that they're being demographically washed out and can't compete fairly -- and this is the best chance they had in a hundred centuries to completely reverse their fortunes.
The Democrats might shrug their shoulders on Nov. 2024 and figure that it'll just be like 2004 or even 2016. Awful, but survivable. They do not realize that they will not be able to come back through the pathway of liberal democracy. The GOP (probably) won't go around outright assassinating high-level Democrats, but it won't really be a problem when they start doing things like repealing poll taxes, implement new voting laws, cranking up deportations and incarcerations, soforth.
America and Humanity as a whole will then faced with two choices. Either accept the transition of de jure to de facto fascist dominance made using legitimate channels without revolt. Or they defy the wishes of the liberal-conservative consensus and not just revolt against the fascists, but against the entire American system. They'll either be whittled down to a regional Vichy France-like rump while the fascists call the shots, or they'll have rebel against the political system that allowed the fascists to take and keep power. Liberal Democrats, of course, will never do the latter. Executing Trump after a triumphant street battle in NYC is one thing (and I have a hard time believing they would allow even that), imprisoning the entire SCOTUS and shipping them off to the Hague is a bridge too far. They would much rather just play the role of Vidkun Quisling and enjoy their position as bitchmade lapdogs of the fascists.
Either way, there won't be room for a Democratic Party that's able to exercise power or even control voters.