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The stiuation in Honduras in recent years is a good case study in this, the left-wing LIBRE party has mass popular support and has continued to push fro progressive policies, but in practice making various concessions to foreign capitalists ( our town just got a Denny's and McDonalds yay ) , so it's pink as hell, neo-liberal socialism, and trying to hold onto political power with the ever looming threat of a foreign backed nationalist coup forces them into incredibly compromising position, so most of their 'reforms' end up being very minor / maintaining the basic functions of the government like maintaining infrastructure ( tbf things the previous regime failed to do )

If the nationalists get back in power ( there's an election year ) would mean basically a doge, the complete liquidation of any social safety net and probably the murder of thousands by right wing death squads -- rural paramilitaries continue to assassinate labour and indigenous leaders -- so even this milquetoast social democracy is worth fighting for, but to even suggest, for example the expropriation of the American megacorps like Dole isn't going to fly, the media is, obviously, controlled by the elites who are all anti LIBRE and paint them as extreme communists despite their milquetoast policies

So i think an American socialist party, or possibly socdem takeover of the democrats would look very similar in terms of a highly opportunistic and compromised populist party which inevitably stagnates

The answer in both cases is an autonomous workers movement, pushing from the outside to be more radical or else