I’m not saying those who pushed to throw the election rather than picking the lesser of two evils had the right idea, they clearly didn’t and are part of the reason we are where we are. But you know what would have prevented that? Not simply being the lesser of two evils.

This is the conversation I had with so many people. It doesn't matter if you think voters are dumb to do something (i.e. stay home in protest over Gaza): if you know they're going to do that, you actually have to react accordingly.

But at this point I'm convinced the Democratic Party leadership would rather Republicans win than progressives, because Republicans don't threaten their positions in the party.

I'm also afraid that the message they will take away is, "an important portion of our base doesn't want a woman as president", rather than, "there's a portion of our base that we need to excise because they're misogynists".