Foreign Governments have provably funded far-right candidates through massive influxes of money to political action committees. They funnel money directly to our new media. We are at war; a Civil War, instigated by foreign meddlers and run by foreigners to our shores like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.
It is already too late to go "Back to the way things were". Democrats need to find a small handful of Republicans who are still loyal to the Constitution, to America, and to Americans. You must work to fix the media narrative; to expose MAGA as foreign occupiers, and to restore Democracy to the US.
If you can't build a consensus across the aisle, to remind conservative moderates why America has been a world leader for a hundred years, then no amount of grassroots politics will save us. We will be mown down in the streets and camps; America's light will be extinguished by cruelty and stupidity.