I'm sorry, since when is circumventing primary process worse than literally trying to steal an election? You want the perfect Democrat to run, while the other side is running a joke.
Let's not kid ourselves, the reason Democrats lost was because of economy and voter apathy. Otherwise, we wouldn't see Democrats lose control of all branches of the government. No matter what strategies they adopted, it wouldn't have worked.
She was already a VP and our country still has inflation. People are idiots and blame it on Democrats.
Objectively, the standards applied to the two candidates is wildly different, I'm not sure why we blame anyone other than voters, at this point.