I can only speak to the politics in the US, but you’re right in that Democrat officials are largely are wordy with little talk and no bite. I don’t know if I directly blame them for the right turning fascist over the last 10 years but you can’t fight a growing fire by conceding ground and feeding it while hoping that it’ll be less hungry next time. The start of the fire was definitely started by Trump’s propaganda in 2016 but the kindling was laid out prior in acts like Citizen’s United. People were bored and wanted something different in 2016, republicans being ethically blind to damage their policies might cause. Dems really fucked up by backstabbing Bernie and forcing a bad candidate into the spotlight. 8 years later and they haven’t learned anything and the working class is still left behind.
I don’t know the answer to forcing the Democratic party to fix its mistakes, I just know where it went wrong.
Exactly, dividing the left-wing even more would only lead to failure. The best action was to unify to squeak by, but it didn’t work this time obviously.