Here's the cool thing, you don't have to defend. Strategic warfare dictates that when you're forced into a defense, instead deflect and go on a counter-offense. In other words, social democrats may sorta suck, but whip it around to start shitting on them tenfold for being literal right-wing maga fascists that cheered for Trump and Israel, as well as having an incoherent political platform that can be boiled down to social chauvanism WASP worship, right-opportunist capital restorationism, Trotskyite war mongering, and a completely fluid party line that changes daily at the whim of the cult of personality cultivating twitch streamer that leads the american clown party