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They do, all the time, the media you watch just doesn't cover it. Look up, for example, when Pelosi was recently asked about socialism and she said that this is, and always will be, a capitalist country.  Or when she backed away from Medicare for all and said we just need to fix Obamacare.  Go look up footage of Biden on the Senate judiciary committee during the Thomas and Alito confirmation hearings and watch how he interacted with them.  Look at Biden's Senate voting record vis a vis banking reform.  Look up video of Biden delivering the eulogy at his close friend Strom Thurmond's funeral.

The mainstream of the Democratic party is split between neo-Liberal centrists and center right 'third way' folks.  Its only very recently that the actual left, like Bernie Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and others have been able to get any traction.  And Sanders is still an independent who just caucuses with the Democrats.  Ocasio-Cortez, for example, primaried a Democrat from the left.

From what I've seen in this and other threads, most of the folks on this board are in that mainstream Democratic spread.  Hating Trump doesn't make you a leftist.  There are plenty of people on the right, who actually believe in conservative principles, who hate Trump just as much as the left does.

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I'm curious as to what basis there is for hope that he will fix it at some point? I don't say this as a right vs left issue: no President in recent memory has seemed to have had any incentive to fix the issue of the budget deficit. The reason for that is that they have been able to get away with it. I see no reason to believe that won't continue. Until, of course, other countries stop fuelling the debt, and it becomes time to pay the piper.

I am curious as to what is the worse alternative? That the military budget stayed constant and, horror of horrors, the US remained by far the biggest military power in the world, but didn't grow its margin of military spending?

But there are also policies more associated with the right wing that I agree with. The unions needed to be managed, but Thatcher did it in a manner that was without compassion and that, to me, often is the issue. Do you show compassion in enacting your policies? Do you, as a government, look out for the poor, those that are incapable (for whatever reason) of helping themselves? those that are harmed most by your policies?

If not, I really have a problem with you. And Trump seems to have not one iota of compassion for anyone. You are either with him, loyal to the core, or you are someone to be destroyed and removed. In addition, he lies his head off all the time - about really easy to prove things. So therefore cannot be trusted about the important things. And that's some of the main reasons I think he is dangerous.

Incidentally, as I type this, my son is watching the children's ITV channel and a character called President Trumps has just come on. Farts his way through speeches. Childish, but very, very funny

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The best way to reduce abortions is to have comprehensive sex education and provide easy, affordable access to contraception. But the right doesn't seem interested in that and more focused on shaming women for having sex outside of making babies for their husbands.

Mix in the lies about anything to do with the wall and the policies associated with that

"Far from immigration increasing crime rates, studies demonstrate that immigrants and immigration are associated inversely with crime. Immigrants are less likely than the native-born to commit crimes, and neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have much lower rates of crime and violence than comparable nonimmigrant neighborhoods. However, crime rates rise among the second and later generations, perhaps a negative consequence of adaptation to American society."

The data in this study suggests that if you lower immigration, the crime rate should rise...

Also interesting in this study from 2016 is that the number of illegal immigrants  in the US has been on a steady decline in recent years: LINK

Doesn't really add up to a national emergency.