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It can work if the politicians are willing to change to listen to their voter base. Both war parties aren't single-issue parties. If parties want to win the democratic mandate to enact other policies, they need to play ball with their electorate. That's the entire point of a democracy - that the electorate gets to be heard. It seems ridiculous that one side is enacting policies that are almost across-the-board unattractive to their demographic, and they're getting away with it because it can't be helped, we can't vote for the other guy, after all. (Obviously the other side is worse, but presumably their side loves their evil policies.)
Your argument basically amounts to "because our political parties will never listen to the people", which to me is pretty damning, and ensures that the DNC can continue to never listen to their voters. Do I want Trump to win? Absolutely not, even as someone not in the US. But the DNC can't be allowed to keep looking at these numbers, shrug, and say people will vote for them anyway.
Edit: My main point is that if Biden loses this because people aren't willing to vote for him, maybe some of the blame should go to the DNC and not just the "stupid voters"?
Sure, but this logic only works if you don't think about the consequences of letting Trump win just to pull the DNC to the left.
More people are going to die, mostly from the side you root for and all over the world, environmental policies will be fucked, rich people will get even richer, women and minorities will lose even more rights, he might be able to put more Republican judges in the supreme court.
If we were talking about two fairly reasonable parties (Liberals vs Harper's Conservatives in Canada back in the day for example) then sure, teach your party a lesson, there will be an impact but it won't be major. But that's not the situation we're talking about right now.