“Democrats have portrayed Republicans as racist, plutocratic sociopaths who will stop at nothing to take and hold power indefinitely.”

This is true, though. The GOP is a fascist entity.

That doesn’t mean progressives shouldn’t take over the Democratic Party as the Tea Party took over the GOP; we should. But pretending Trump — who hasn’t conceded the election and is attempting a coup — and company are at all normal political actors is simply bad analysis.