I also think that dismissing the positive progress that was made during Dem administrations as irrelevant is counterproductive. It's always easy to find more that needs to be done, but if the politicians are only ever praised by the braying mob for doing horrible things then you can see how ...
... the incentives go in the wrong direction. I used to be a radical, but after the last decade of global regression towards far right, I've turned into a radical gradualist – any progress in the positive direction should be celebrated and encouraged, because natural trend is ruin at the moment.