Look, my dude. The democrats were basically just trailing the republicans by maybe 12 years. At best, this victory would have bought us just a few more years of uneasy status quo and failing to address the causes and conditions that brought us to this point. As things were, we were getting our Nazi arc sooner or later. I'd rather choose no Nazis at all, and have the uncomfortable conversations needed to make that happen. Until we address the conditions that brought us to this point, we would, at any rate, inevitably tip into open fascism; shutting up, falling in line, and hoping that they'll win if we don't think bad thoughts about the democrats won't fix it. Let's face it, there wasn't a political appetite for fixing it in the next four years, as there wasn't in the last four years (see: Merrick Garland). We needed to fix it, and we still do.
Just so I'm clear, I've read chunks of Project 2025. My kids are on the chopping block. I am begging the democrats to do better than being diet Nazi.