I'm still in favor of many individual Democratic candidates even if many people are waking up to the misuse of power at the top.

A lot of people are wowed by their theoretical policies, and then decide to run as candidates under their platform. Very few of their politicians ever get "A Crash Course In How To Appeal To Money" as a result of that allegiance. So unless anyone wants to suggest kinks in this plan, we can hate the institution democrats and still support the progressive democrats; and I think there are far more of the latter than the former. It just means people facing a local election have to actually read through someone's life story, as opposed to "Oh, they're the Democrat? Great, then them."

The Republican Party also went through a similar transition (for the worse) as Trump took it over.