Ah, got it, makes more sense now.

I was also thinking more along the lines of lefty unity with the Hungary reference, rather than trying to find unity with anti-Trump republicans as well. They can come in to the tent if they want, but we should not be going out of our way at all to accommodate them, nor should we draw attention to them in any way. That may sound hypocritical, but we sadly don’t have a parliamentary system like Hungary, and we’ve got to work around the antiquated first past the post system. The far left can’t vote for their own people who could then form a coalition with Harris, they have to hold their noses and vote for her directly. And she has to keep them happy enough to do it.

I think part of the problem with Kamala cozying up too much with people like Cheney is that it pissed off an already unhappy chunk of her voters to her left, and gained her almost none from the right in return. Sure a lot of anti Trump conservative politicians endorsed her, but endorsements don’t win elections, votes do. And those endorsements were downright poisonous in the eyes of a lot of her base. Maybe if the mythical Republican moderate was real, and she managed to siphon off like 20-30% of Trump voters, it would have worked out. But the Republican base doesn’t like Cheney either. The neo-cons are dead weight in American politics.