Quote of the Day

What Biden needs to worry about is not highly engaged activists making some considered calculation not to vote for him, but instead millions of regular ass people who will not vote for him because they don’t feel excited about him. They will stay home because he has not given them an inspiring thing to vote for.

—Hamilton Nolan

But they will continue to hippy punch, because while Donald Trump and the Republicans are the opposition, but left wing activists are the enemy.

Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is Boies Penrose*, only writ small and incompetent.

It wasn't the people who voted for Jill Stein in 2020, or Ralph Nader in 2000, (they both still suck, though†) who flipped the elections, it was the people who could not be motivated to vote because of things like running mate Joe Lieberman and candidate Hillary Clinton.

The Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment) is by its nature, is an institution whose basic message is, "Better things are not possible," and even when they find a champion who possesses rhetorical skills that can overcome these limitations, like Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, they are followed by an electoral bloodbath when they refuse to deliver on that promise.

Biden lacks these rhetorical skills, though he has delivered more than any Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson, but he is still very much a creature of the Democratic Party establishment (There is no Democratic Party establishment), and proud of it.

To the degree that Biden is at all viable, it is because his opponent is so profoundly awful.

^*You know, the Iron Law of Institutions, which as stated by Jon Schwarz, "The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution." Or, as then Pennsylvania Senator Boies Penrose said, when accused of ruining the state Republican Party by putting forward a slate of candidates that were likely to lose, "Yes, but I'll preside over the ruins."
^†They don't suck for the reason that you think. They suck because they play to now play to lose. They are wealthy privileged assholes who like being wealthy privileged assholes, but feel guilty about it, and so engage in theatrical agitprop.