Thank you to digby for her choice of the QOTD from Charlie Pierce in his article " The Democratic Party is Finding a Way to F*ck This Up.
I honestly believe that the Democratic Party does not yet appreciate the fact that it is the only viable political vehicle capable of resisting the existential threat that is Trumpism, nor does it realize that time is growing very short. At the moment, it can’t get out of its own way and the clock is ticking ever louder.
my bolding
Two more paragraphs from earlier in the article I’d like to share:
I will go to my grave convinced that the 2016 Democratic primary process was the single most depressing political event I ever witnessed. The Republicans at least had a thin, bright edge of insanity that kept things from getting utterly tedious. (I never will forget waking up on the morning of the Indiana primary to discover that the president* had tried to pin the Kennedy assassination on Ted Cruz’s father. Most primary days are a dull as dishwater until they start counting the votes. This one wasn’t.) But the Democratic nominating circus was an endless slog that veered between a coronation and a smug, self-righteous quasi-insurgency that quickly developed a paranoid streak a mile wide. This set a perfect stage for the nearly omnipresent Russian ratfcking. The ratfckers didn’t have to create divisions to exploit, they already were there.
And, of course, the hell of it all is that, as the president* screws up, lies his withered hindquarters off, places larval reactionaries on the federal bench, and hands the departments of the government over to the unqualified and the outright loony, this miserable political pissing match is still going on.
Again my bolding
I am not getting into this argument. No one will persuade anyone at this point and what the hell is the point. The DNC is and always has been a work in progress, as it were. No do-overs. We all need to suck it up and deal with the incredible disaster we are all facing.
And if we all want a little refresher course on the fragility of democracy and stuff, digby has one for you Yes, it can happen here.