They actually have a coherent platform. Go look at it.

I have. It's in line with their Marxist-Leninist ideology. Has the greatest hits like:

• Abolish capitalism
• Seize private property
• Government-provided (somehow):
  • Housing
  • Food
  • Pre-K to college education (including medical education and training)
  • Energy
  • Universal healthcare
  • Transportation
• Abolish the police and the ability for the state to incarcerate people (so... vigilante/mob justice)
• Prosecute people they consider to be war criminals (remember, the far left accused Kamala and Biden of genocide)

The DSA-backed guys like Mamdani are doing good stuff

Mamdani is alright. But especially in the beginning, people glaze him for things he didn't have anything to do with, or that's just part of the job that any mayor would have done. Stuff like "balancing the budget", tiktoks about potholes being filled after tweeting at him, childcare expansion, transit upgrades, etc.

But that's part of the vanguard party strategy. Sell the "see, we're not so bad, we just want healthcare and free busses lol" narrative to garner populist support.

the dems platform mainly consists of orange man bad

They actually have a coherent platform. Go look at it.

polling that shows most Americans want universal health coverage, not the half-assed public/private ACA nonsense

But your source says "35% of all adults favor a single national health insurance system run by the government."?

You have centrist democrats in battleground and red states resisting climate change timelines when nearly two-thirds of Americans want climate change addressed.

And yet Biden passed the largest climate and clean-energy legislation ever in US history during his term. Didn't get much media attention for some reason...

Meanwhile, you have the DSA proposing really good stuff, like eliminating the senate to get rid of disproportionate representation of red states with small populations, who have also gerrymandered the heck out of the electoral map to gain further advantage and shut out the power of a majority vote.

And how is that position reflecting in the polls? Is it looking likely to swing any elections?

If you don’t want progressives to run a coup within the Dem ranks, then actually use a good platform

The vast majority of the positions these DSA-backed candidates hold that resonate with the voter base are pretty well in line with the general positions of the Democratic party at large. But they serve it up with a healthy dose of "fuck the system, man" and people lap it up.

Meanwhile, look at the disaster that was Graham Platner. Apparently they're cool with a nazi mercenary rapist so long as he isn't a gasp establishment dem.

And then you have their unhinged pundits, who AES chose to campaign with, and refuses to strongly condemn for their behavior like saying America deserved 9/11, cheering on terrorist attacks, platforming terrorists, etc. Now their even starting to call for violence against liberals for being anti-DSA. All of which is being used by Republicans as free easy ammo to smear the whole party.