So if it's essentially a certainty that they won't, what do you do in the general?

You vote for the least objectionable. We don't always get everything we want. Welcome to life, brought to you by unrelenting determinism.

Are you forgetting about uncle Joe?

I already mentioned Joe Manchin, so do you mean Biden? Because he's been way more progressive than even many of his Congressional cohorts. Not that he's still not mostly center-right and a self-avowed Zionist, but I don't think it's fair to pretend he's a Republican in Democrat clothing.