What more can one say about the brilliance of The Onion?

With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American people wouldn’t notice them. “Don’t make any sudden movements, or they’ll spot us,” Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said out of the corner of his mouth, tightly squeezing his eyes shut as he reminded Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) to hold their breath anytime a member of the voting public walked by. “Did it work? I think we’re in the clear for now, but that was a close one. They could have talked to us, for crying out loud, or worse—demanded that we do something. Unless we put our hands up in front of our faces and crouch down behind our briefcases, some of these voters may realize we’ve been standing here all along.”

For several decades now the Dems have run on, "At least we aren't as bad as them!" That strategy might get them elected every 2 to 4 years, but it'll never work longer than that, because they will never fix anything. It leaves the Dems as the party of the status quo, even when the status quo sucks.
It doesn't appear that they intend to change anything.

James Carville is wrong. This is no time for Democrats to “roll over and play dead,” as he advised last week in The New York Times. Sure, the veteran operative has a point that “the Republican Party flat out sucks at governing.” ...
Maybe wealthy people can stomach a period of playing dead, but try convincing Americans who will bear the brunt of the economic “hardship” Elon Musk warned about before the election. For them, a “strategic political retreat,” as Carville suggests, looks more like abandonment in a time of need.

Republicans go on offense and play to their base whether in power or not, while Democrats seem hostile to their own. Think of the 2024 election cycle when Kamala Harris’s campaign bet big that support from Liz Cheney was going to draw significant numbers of disaffected (non-MAGA) Republicans, even as there were warning signs about diminished support among core Democratic constituencies.

Since the 90's, whenever something went wrong, or the Dems lost an election, they always punched left. It was always the fault of their grassroots base. Either they didn't suck it up enough, or they were too loud about their demands.
The good news is that the Democratic base has never been more unhappy with it's political leaders. Maybe, just maybe, they might primary out those worthless stiffs for a change.

Democratic voters plainly crave a fight—indeed, they report higher dissatisfaction with their congressional leaders than Republican voters reported at the same time in 2009, at the dawn of what would become the Tea Party movement. By contrast, most Democratic politicians, at least those in Congress, are running their usual playbook: laying low, waiting for Trump to screw up, and getting annoyed with the increasingly frantic demands of their base.

Before all of Dem haters speak up, it's important to recognize that this is a GLOBAL problem. It's happening all over the world.

Ideologically, the Third Way embraced what now might be called “supply-side progressivism”: an active state role in building the productive infrastructure of the economy, while largely forgoing any significant pursuit of socioeconomic redistribution and equality.