While Democracy Burns, Democrats Prioritize Demolishing Section 230?
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Sounds like a mischaracterization to call it a priority for democrats. It seems like it's a non-partisan issue for a subset of both parties.
The obvious place to go for such allies is the center-left, who share at least some of their opinions. They'll probably block a lot of the things that the left would hope to get, but they'll get something. Even if they literally got nothing, it would be better than going-backwards they get from the "rightists".
The rightists have successfully fused with the center-right. And they've done that, remarkably, by putting the far-right in charge. Conventional wisdom would say that the center-right wouldn't go along with extremist policies, but apparently conventional wisdom is wrong.
Until recently I'd have said that reverse tactic wouldn't work, but I'm coming to revise that opinion. Not because I think it will work, but because I'm out of ideas.
I don't think it's necessary or helpful to create a whole new party for that. There's too much apparatus that needs to be created. It would be better to shift the existing Democratic party far to its left -- not because that's the majority or median view, but because the "leftists" won't align otherwise. That could well be a bitter pill for those who consider themselves center-left, but it's less bitter than continuing to lose.
We know revolutionary political change is possible in the US, Trumpism is unfortunately evidence of it. That shit started out as a meme and now it's the de facto ideology of the American imperialist establishment. The question is, is this only possible from the right? Does the left need to do to the Democrats what the Trumpists did to the Republicans, and if so, how?
But I could tell by your second sentence that you're neither willing nor able to engage with nuance and have an intelligent conversation on the matter. We wouldn't even be speaking the same language, so I'll leave it be.
Let me swap out some of the words to demonstrate how overly generalized your argument is.
> What is the fascination with the right? Capitalism is fundamentally evil. Equating rightism with fair outcomes is naive at best. DOGE, Project 2025, and "White House seeks plan for possible Russia sanctions relief" [1] exemplify what happens when rightism triumphs - only the dictators are well off. The rest suffer equally. If the Republican Party wants to recover, move to the center. Otherwise, they’re done.