One of the parties is blatantly racist, homophobic, greedy, stupid, and selfish, and they celebrate it, they are proud of it. The other party is not. The other party has issues, but they are worlds apart. There is no excuse not to aggressively vote blue at every opportunity.

You need a public who is willing to hold them accountable first.

They aren’t unstoppable. There are a lot of them for sure, but there are at least as many bullets in the US.

No. Maybe sometimes they are. But generally, racial slurs are used explicitly to be racist or offensive.

do you think virtue signaling isn’t a real thing, or that it never happens?

no one has ever been offended by the word removed, unless they are getting offended on someone else’s behalf to virtue signal