Socialists took over the Democrat Party in 1896. This is nothing new.
I don’t really care about democracy.
I don’t really care about the republic.
I don’t really care about most of the people there in.
What I care about is getting more, and I want it all blown apart if I can’t.
At it’s primal levels, socialism is about envy and schadenfreude. Compassion and empathy for others only extends to those who I identify as being like me, and even then it’s really just a tool for the cause