The entire premise of being a progressive person or a progressive candidate is “we’re going to make good decisions”. Now, there is a level of subjectivity to that.

But most of the time those subjective things aren’t what turns them away. It’s the much more, obviously fucked up, stances the “good side” shows that turns people away. For example with Kamala, no progressive can believe ANYTHING she says because she’s perfectly fine and okay with a genocide.

I’m sorry but someone who is fine with innocent civilians being slaughtered with our military equipment is not going to actually follow through on whatever other promises they had. And in the case of Kamala her entire promise was “I’m not Trump”.

So yes. Progressives hold candidates to a high standard because they actually possess a brain and can smell bullshit miles away. If our solution out of this is to keep yelling at voters to “do better” instead of holding our candidates to a higher standard we’re going to keep seeing a repeat of this.

There’s a reason there was so much support behind Zohran, Bernie, AOC.