>if dude hadnt
>run one of the shittiest and laziest frontrunner campaigns in
>recent memory and performed on par with hillary clinton...it
>would be smooth sailing.

She did a ton of stuff wrong for a wide variety of reasons, but no matter what horrible things I believe about her, I'll always concede that her hate is pure. She ran that dumb campaign because she believed in it and believed it was the way to win.

Biden just wasn't up for any of this.

how about this for a counterfactual to chew over: if the party had committed to anointing Elizabeth Warren over the past few years, then it would have inoculated them against Sanders in the way they're desperately searching for now. Instead, they hedged their bets because even her willingness to preserve the interests of capital but with some reform was too aggressive. They got greedy, and now they're paying for it.