I’ve been very critical of the Democrats here (being from a different country and having a much broader political exposure than the typical American, I see them as a very rightwing party in broader World Politics terms) and would say that most of the core motivations of the people who are establishment Democrat politicians are the same as those of the Republicans politicians.

They are, however very different in what means they think are acceptable to use, how much damage they’re willing to do to society in general to achieve what they want and even on how far they will go, from present day Republicans.

At the moment Republicans are outright Fascists very much using the NAZI playbook on things like Propaganda and bits of it on other things (such as their subversion of the Judiciary, takeover of the Press and using the powers of the state they have gotten their hands on far beyond what is Lawful).

The establishment Democrats are smooth liars and some of them are even colaborators, but they still value the old rules, proportionality and not breaking everything. They’re definitelly not fighting for the “little man”, however their favoring of “keep it within the rules” means that they are far less destructive and that does mean they are not as bad for the “little man”, because guess who gets fucked up the most when the everything breaks (hint: it’s not the rich).

I would even go as far as saying that right now mainstream Democrats are the “conservatives” (in the sense that they want things to stay as they are) whilst the Republicans are the revolutionaries (not, “Revolution of the Proletariat” kind of Revolution, rather the “Fascist takeover” kind).

They’re not the same.

Doesn’t mean that either side is good, it means they’re objectivelly different in terms of what they do and the outcomes of it.