Except Obama did and got viscerated for that, but whatever. A Democrat who goes scorched Earth will cause civil war, either governmentally or actually. That's how bad of a situation we are in being owned by powerful lobbying groups and having Republicans being the worst ideologically. Republican politicians and their voters are giddy for an actual civil war. They believe they are Lincoln. Look at what they do across the country in their shytty states. It's too late.
Anything we do will be used 1000 times worse against us. It's like if you have a 3 year old who has equal co-parenting powers. They are going to try to veto you and go off to eat chocolate cookies for breakfast lunch and dinner while shytting all over your floor.
It was hilarious and sad to me right before covid hit that Biden might win because if Biden wins and doesn't hold a true strong majority in the Senate nothing will get done and Republicans will easily win in 2024. (Nevermind that no other candidate was actually viable - Americans hate women, Jews, gays, and "socialists" - only an ancient white Christian man is acceptable.) If covid didn't hit we would probably have Trump as president right now. Consider that Democrats can't actually fix that. Look at what Obama had in terms of legislative potential in 2009 to 2010 and consider how little that gave us. Republicans then poisoned anything good that came out of those legislative successes for 6+ years. Obama tried to rule by executive order after 2010 and lost a lot of court cases and got the public riled up. Democrats have a true razor thin advantage right now and that's not enough clearly because Manchin and company are Lieberman 2.0.
That being said, some things are getting through. It's just that it won't be nearly enough.
Sorry, but without the Democrats having great legislative powers for a sustained period of time, the country is fukked. You guys are just participating in outrage porn. Well get used to that for the next decade or two as we slide into irrelevance and chaos. Now that Repubs made it clear they are on the gold path towards fascism and decay the country is not getting better.
Btw Biden can't go full Theodore Roosevelt and FDR because national conservatism came into being to counter that and successfully took over. Combined with Trump populism, Christianity, and uneducated racist white dorks...man. This generation is lost.