One thing you can say about the odious Republicans: they sure know how to close ranks, stick to a fucking plan, and support their guy to the hilt. I will give those demons that. For years, while out in the political wilderness, they kept chipping away and chipping away and chipping away--until they took power, and nearly hegemonic power. Yup, true believers they are, regardless of their heinous policies and suicidal ideology. This is not something liberals do well, I am afraid. Charitably, one might say it has to do with our ability to think for ourselves, our non-conformist natures. A less charitable version comes from a hardcore Leftist I once knew, who said: “the difference between a conservative and a liberal is that a conservative will stab you in the front.” Aside from poor ability to unify-- except into a circular firing squad--other tendencies work against us
Consultant class dimwits, like James Carville, are mostly concerned about mugging for the camera, and making $$$. He has said some unforgivably stupid things since the 1990s and has mostly been wrong 90% of the time. But his myth— or brand-- was created during the Clinton candidacy. He is always good if you need a loud mouth to come out and punch the Left, concern troll, or ratfuck an opportunity for human progress. His folksy, gee whiz charm, is stale, but the perfect simulacra of “genuineness” to be trotted out to ratify a dumb idea ( for a contrast listen to what his former boss Bill Clinton thinks about the debate). Much like the ex- military guys they bring TV on to sell us a terrible war, this idiot ( and the many like him) need to be aggressively ignored. But luckily, ( and this is the good thing about the Web) we are living in a splintered media environment where one can easily check facts and one’s own sanity against what the media corporations want us to believe. There is a possibility we may lose with Biden, but if we trash Biden now, and try to shoehorn another candidate into office, we will lose catastrophically up and down the ticket, and it will be lights out.