I am here to remind the folks with short memories that the party muckety-mucks and fossilized DC bozo brigade once tried to force NYC billionaire Mike Bloomberg ( even bent the rules to do it) into the mix for the 2020 election primary, once the usual elite panic and bedwetting set in ( past is prologue).
Never mind Bernie and Warren, Biden too thought it was insane bullshit to have this out-of-touch Republican billionaire on the dais, making repellant jokes and talking down to everyone, and screaming about socialism. WTF were they thinking?
It was mostly done to throw a bomb into the process, once Bernie and Warren started pulling the discourse to the Left. It achieved nothing except earn the white hot rage of the entire Democratic base, and served to demonstrate the gross incompetence and stupidity of the people allegedly in charge of the party process.
I thought of that again when, after the debate, all these congressional assholes started crawling out of the woodwork to lecture everybody ( the plebes who elect them, presumably) about what is good for the party, and why we should panic and crawl into a hole or something...unless we elect Bloomberg ( one of the most loathed people in the country).
In any case, the people who eventually elected Biden were not the supposed geniuses at the DNC or the sideline geniuses in the media. It was the grassroots volunteers, who came out ( despite COVID and warnings not to) and knocked on doors and put Biden over the finish line, in large part because Trump completely fucked the country into the ground and people were out for revenge at the ballot box. And, I expect the same thing to happen again in four months.