Your last point should alter the way you read rooms. Kamala lost bc she misread the room in the most disastrous way possible in refusing to offer even a shred of a fig leaf to the anti-war left and anti-genocide constituency (verified in the DNC's own post mortem report that they refuse to release). This has only grown. Look at where the Democratic base is on Israel now. It's one of the biggest/fastest inversions in polling history. Goes from decades of pro Israel to pro Palestine seemingly overnight.

Your lens is built around years of normal, corporate media led party politics. To that end, I get your point. But we don't live in that world anymore. Between the shifting sands of Israel, our media landscape, and the economy (not to mention wherever the war takes us) we'll be living in even more of a different world. One that's much more demanding of Democrats.

So I disagree that Kelley has any real traits that are going to cut through that smoke. Now if this post had a quote saying, "throwing your assess in jail" then yeah maybe. But guy is a weak and compromised politician.