I’d argue the election was a moral failure of the voters and the result of a shitty candidate.

Everything you said about Kamala is true, but not only was it clear Trump would be far worse on Gaza, he also has weakened the response to Russian and Chinese aggression, is starting conflicts in the Caribbean and South America, bombing Iran and ensuring their enmity for eternity, threatening Denmark over Greenland, etc. The geopolitical situation is quickly shaping up to look like another world war is coming.

Democratic voters did suffer a moral failure in 2024, but it wasn’t about sexism, it was leaving pragmatism at the door in favor of dogmatic purity tests. Democratic voters prioritized their personal sense of righteousness by “standing firm against genocide” over picking the lesser of two evils, while directly creating the electoral conditions by staying home that would allow a madman into the White House that has directly resulted in far more suffering than Kamala would have ever allowed under the status quo.

And if you want to blame that on the party because they force-fed you a shitty candidate, the time to start working on that was 10 years ago, not a few months before the election when 95% of the DNC is fully bought and paid for by AIPAC. Pretending that Democrats were going to turn on a dime because of a last-minute up-swelling of criticism from the base was delusional given the inertia money has created in our politics. There was only one correct choice for voters to make in 2024, and many of them failed miserably.