Not an American here, but given the current state of US democracy I would argue that the less fascist party would be utterly stupid to pass on a chance at populism just to be fair towards an opposing party who openly calls for the shooting of your members and has prooved it will itself stretch every rule (even the ones they self spouted before) to e.g. put in their supreme court picks.

You cannot play it "fair" with fascists and expect your nation to stay a democracy — at least not on such a minor level. And I am not a fan of the Democrats myself, but as an Austrian living in Germany I learned enough about the Nazi rise to power to know where this is heading.

If you didn't have the Dollar, you'd be neck deep in fascism already.