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You cannot reform the party. Either it changes you, or they have you removed.
Yes, the Democrats occupy and monopolize the space for a leftist party. That does not mean the Democrats are leftist, nor ever will be.
"leftist" is not a synonym for "radical" or "Communist". "leftist" covers the entire spectrum of liberal-ultraliberal-radical. You are not going to get people to become Communists/Stalinists by redefining words no matter how hard you try. Lenin and Stalin's biggest victims were the other leftwing socialist political parties, not the rightwing capitalists.
You do realize the irony of telling someone else they cannot define a word while you simultaneously define it. You do realize that, right?
You do realize the meanings of words are easily found in the dictionary right?
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/leftist
leftist
noun
adjective