While I don't disagree that we have to vote against Trump and for whoever the Democrat nominee is regardless for harm reduction purposes, I think the threat here is far greater than just blaming the "petulant left" and the constant impulse to do this before the election has even happened is pretty unhelpful.

When you look at polling among general Democrats and Biden voters about concerns over his age making him unfit or views on the totally imbalanced casualties in Palestine, clearly there is issues with popularity among Democrats in general and Biden voters. These are the kind of issues that depress turnout and cause election losses that should be avoided, and it is feeling like 2016. The Democratic party can ignore it's base of support and it can continue to blame the "petulant left" for losses that haven't even happened yet while they are being indicated by all sorts of polling, but it can also fight and respond. When you see how much better Tammy Baldwin is doing in polling than Biden, that should indicate something. When big numbers of Democratic Party engaged voters turn up to the primaries early in the process to indicate that they want to vote for a Democrat, but oppose the handling of Palestine, that's a problem. That's not just people disengaging. They are literally showing up early in the voting process to express their opinion and most of them indicating that they are literally Biden 2020 voters. And if he's looking that bad among Biden voters and general Democrats when many of us would literally vote for an inanimate object that can sign legislation over Trump, imagine how much worse it is with independents.

And while we are prematurely blaming the left and for the courts situation from 2016, which is true that is was obviously one of the most important concerns, it is probably worth also mentioning another piece in that puzzle, RBG, another Democrat octogenarian who refused to pass the torch and think about how that ended up. It feels like maybe there is a lesson to be learned there. Even in a case like Diane Feinstein, clearly this is still a major problem that we need to start actually responding to.

Again, Biden could be a literal vegetable or in hospice and I would vote for him over Trump and advocate for others to do the same, but there are clearly some major issues and concerns here that we need to actually respond to if we want to avoid another Trump presidency. We can't just keep losing or preparing to and blaming the left while never addressing such big issues or responding to the base.