The thing is, there’s “Dems” and then there are “Dems™”.
Dems™ are the Democratic National Committee, and they are so fucking out of touch with reality it’s not even funny any longer. There are plenty of Democrats that are simply captured by Dems™ and really just get hamstrung by their idiocy.
My windows installs (Win 10 IoT Edition) just boot directly to desktop. Dunno what you’ve borked there.