"We'll simply continue to do nothing even though we hold the executive office, and if we just keep sternly telling the Republicans that this is wrong and bad they will eventually stop!"

Imagine if Lincoln, after the confederate states declared their independence from the United States, had just said "gosh darn gee wilikers! There's nothing I can do because it would be mean and make me an authoritarian tankie!"

There are times to play by the rules and there are times to give up the delusion that both sides are even pretending there are rules and that time came decades ago. I also believe in judging people by their actions rather than rhetoric and cheap talk. Trump has talked the talked and walked the walk as far as he could. I believe him. Biden says he opposes trump, yet does absolutely fucking nothing to stop him when he holds all the power. My own internal logic forces me to see that these two people aren't on opposite sides of anything... their disagreements amount to more of inner party squabbling than anything substantive.

All I know is Biden has about 5 months left before Trump might win the election in which he could sign an EO declaring the Trump admin including the president himself to be terrorists and then have them taken out. If he and the dems really really really believe all the shit they say will happen will actually happen, well, you've run out the clock on institutional power stopping him. The institutions just said he did nothing wrong and never can effectively. But they also said it about you, Joey. You're also 8000 years old. Just do it.