It's easy to point fingers, and the author isn't wrong, but I remember the whole democratic party absolutely tone-deaf to their voters campaign after campaign.

It's not just checking boxes, they had to relate. Harris had an incredible start; an injection of new blood and vigor to the stale humdrum. But for the love of jeebus, will they stop "playing the game" and do f-ing something!

Fuck David Plouffe. He's been trying to sell this bullshit since November 6th. He went on Pod Save America to explain what went wrong with the Harris campaign. Did he admit that they should have distanced themselves from Biden on Gaza? Or that campaigning with Liz Cheney and targeting moderate Republicans was a failed strategy? Or that their middle-class platform cost them working-class voters? Nope! The conclusion he came to was that they did everything right, but they just didn't have enough time. Joe Biden should live out his remaining years in shame and isolation for refusing to step down, but Plouffe's campaign strategy was political malpractice, and he his failures can't be blamed in senility.

Plouffe, who worked as a Harris campaign adviser, has taken aim at Biden obliquely in the past as well.

Feel like this is pretty important context for the statements. Because while I absolutely agree Biden should never have run for a second term, there seems to be a very vocal number of democratic campaign consultants and party officials who really wanted distract you from the fact that they ran a god-awful campaign. I don't know if this Democratic establishment party could have won with anybody to be honest. Not the way they chose to handle themselves. Frankly I find their behavior to be even worse than Biden's. The energy and electricity that Harris started her campaign with was transcendent, especially when they added Walz. Then they drove the whole campaign off a cliff. So excuse me if I'm not super sympathetic to the people that decided to run the Hillary Clinton campaign 2.0.

It fucked them because it locked them into Harris, who was also a uniquely awful candidate. It screwed voters out of having a meaningful primary with real debate about issues.

I think Bernie is the one who would truly have made US great :)

"concerns about Biden’s mobility were so dire, advisers considered having him use a wheelchair during the campaign."

What the what?

All these people care about is money. It’s all about money. Take their fucking money away. They are literally an existential threat to the rest of us.