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It's hard to "dare greatly" when you need the votes from the downtrodden and also need campaign cash from the billionaires. In other words the Dems need something from the exploiters and from the exploited.
If the Dems please their voters, they will upset the superrich and the wannabe superrich (the temporarily embarrassed millionaires), who are their biggest and most reliable donors. The superrich give and they expect something in return. Those corporate revolving doors will not revolve themselves. Upset your money base and you can't buy commercials or get "free" TV coverage on the billionaire-owned media.
So, upsetting the voting base is better for the Dems than upsetting the billionaires. If you disappoint your voters by falling short you can always say "the GOP stopped us, it's not our fault, vote harder next time. Oh, and the GOP is even worse than us Dems, so where are you going to go, little ones?"
That's the Dem strategy ever since the third way takeover.
That's why the Dems are trash. The Dems will absolutely get a reckoning sooner or later.
The Dems cannot fail us, it is only us who can fail the Dems.
The Dems are the cold and timid souls. That's why the Dems always voter shame and never say "I failed."