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Differing treatment of nonprofits falls under "driving off the cliff at 95 vs. 100 mph." The bare minimum approach to the climate crisis would be something on the scale of the Green New Deal. Better treatment of nonprofits is probably more than canceled out by approving more fracking permits, too.

I'm also of the opinion that taking over the Democratic Party from within is a better strategy than trying to destroy it and start over, if only because of how large a task the latter is.

without the Democrats even having a proper seat in office, how are they supposed to even pass any policy, no matter how leftward they go on the political spectrum?

As we're seeing with Trump, you can do a lot with executive power and declaring an emergency. Over time you can translate this into more legislative support if what you're doing is actually good.

if the left continues fracturing and refusing to vote for them because “both sides are the same,” then all that happens is they keep shifting more and more right

Democrats chasing the right dates back to the 70s. It is what is causing the left wing of the party to stop voting for them, not the other way around. As Bernie showed, even a moderate social democrat can bring in those voters and then some. You also see lower-level candidates win by outflanking Democrats from the left, e.g., the whole progressive prosecutor movement.

Besides, the only way to get a politician to move towards you is to threaten not to vote for them. They don't chase voters they have in the bag; they chase voters who are on the fence. That's part of why they've been moving right -- they think they'll pick up more voters from the center than they'll lose from the left. The task is convincing them that unless they move left, they'll lose.