To be a Democrat today you have to:

Make edge cases out to be typical for GOP
Want to install an unaccountable police state run by intel agencies as de facto govt
Think the largest wealth transfer in the history of the world from poor and middle to very top is A-OK
Play a race card at any and every opportunity
Buy into faulty models of how X issue works, while ignoring any rebuttal, context, or comparison

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)