Don't you just feel like yelling... "for the love of Mike.. quit the blame game over the election loss"

[Martin Eden]

38. "Joe Biden stayed too long"

Among the reasons we lost that were within the control of Democrats, the BIGGEST was Joe Biden running for a 2nd term at the end of which he would be 86 years old.

Joe Biden deserves our thanks for his decades of public service, saving our democracy in 2020, and the accomplishments of his administration. But he should NOT have run again.

Kamala Harris also deserves our thanks for stepping up the way she did. I wasn't impressed with her as a candidate in 2020, but I grew to respect and admire her during the campaign that just ended. I think she could have done a better job extolling the success of the Biden economy, but overall she was brilliant.

But Kamala was not popular at all nationally, and she was not selected by Democratic voters as our nominee. I think we would have had a much greater chance in this election if there was an open primary with the next generation of Democratic leaders contending for the nomination, from which an election tested candidate with broader appeal would emerge.

We could not control post pandemic global inflation, or Russia invading Ukraine, or the war in Gaza, or the influence of rightwing propaganda thru talk radio, Fox News, OAN, Sinclair, X, TikTok, Russian Bots, etc.

But we could have had an open primary which may have produced a different result in the general election. Despite the wonderful Harris campaign, we know how that turned out.

And one More thing:

Merrick Garland should have had The Fascist Grifter's ass in prison before the primaries even started.