That’s what the Republicans did to them.

I don't think this part is true. I agree with the part before this, but not this.

The republicans caused a surge in their hate. They appealed to the heartburn in their esophagus's, not their hearts and minds.

I think the voter apathy is really what has them winning. The fact that people can recognize that the DNC seeks to do nothing, and somehow have been tricked into thinking this means their votes mean nothing, or that they can't be changed.

We, on the other hand, have been hitting them over the head with their own racism and stupidity, ignoring the reasons they’re doing what they’re doing - and how we’re playing into Republican hands by doing this over and over.

I don't think its this at all. In fact, when we stopped doing this is when their votes went up. People largely respond to democrats actually fighting for something instead of saying "at least we arent that other guy".

The democrats currently, as a group, come across as "We'll change nothing" and thats the problem. Its a problem that can be fixed though.

Now is the time to build the progressive party as a big tent - if you hold one progressive tenant, you’re a democrat, goddamn it - and start inviting voters into it, with solutions to their problems and acceptance of their ass-backward views until we can soften and change them.

This mentality I actually believe is part of the problem. This speaks as if we're all a part of the DNC, and we're not.

Our levers to control this are as I described. Slow change through primaries, state and local politics.

We would all love if tommorow the Democrats turned around and started talking like Mamdani about practical solutions, but they don't want to do that due to their donors, and the fact a shit ton of the old guard are just rich conservatives.

All these "we need to do X" that start with the DNC magically changing their incentive structure are in similar fairy tale land to a revolution. They misunderstand where the actual roadblocks are, and treat the DNC as if it weren't currently antagonistic to their goals.

Yes its complex to say that the DNC is antagonistic to your goals but you need to support the Democrats anyways with a full chest, but the world is complex, and this is the reality of a winner takes all/first past the post system. There are 2 major parties, eventually, always under these systems, and you pick the least bad one, and force it to change slowly.