It's truly almost worth thinking that the DNC has been infected with loud bad faith advisors who purposefully give bad advice at the hope that they would fail, à la: Wormtongue.

But nahhh... It's just a bunch of octogenarians with their fellow wealthy supporters kids acting as yes men that have lost all connection to the average voter.
They have everything they could want and forgot the struggle and think what's best for them is gonna be best for the new groups who just don't have it all yet and are trying to take it away from them before their time.

Kamala's personality of being a "career politician" combined with her being somewhat clumsy in interviews and public appearances was more of an issue than their policy platform imo. She was like the establishment manifested in an individual.

The Trump phenomena - both times - reminds me of the Brexit vote here in the UK where people didn't care how crazy or self-damaging the alternative option was due to their visceral hatred of the establishment and elites.

They've used the same strategy for literally decades and it has only ever worked once. That strategy is "our candidate is not the bad one". And it worked in 2020 simply because that year was absolutely fucked and lots of people were looking for someone to "fix it". Joe Biden might as well have been anyone in that moment. In previous years it...has...always...failed. It failed spectacularly with Mondale, it failed with Al Gore, it failed with John Kerry (honestly, you could had stood up a loaf of bread with arms and legs with a big D spray painted on it and it would have had a better chance than that milquetoast dipshit). It failed with Hillary, and it has now once again failed with Harris. People don't come out to vote against a candidate. And never have. The base shows up sure, but they always will. But the unlikely voters or centrists only show up to vote for someone they believe in.