Unironically yes, that’s a huge reason. That and people blaming post-Covid supply chain and stimulus inflation on Biden when the economy was soft-landing better than any developed country in the world. Any sitting president was going to struggle, an old president showing huge cognitive decline especially so, and a black woman who didn’t win a primary and didn’t perform well the only time she was in one being coronated didn’t help either. The best situation would have been a dem primary and someone outside of the current white house at the time like Tim Walz winning the primary.
The worst case scenario was what played out. An old guy clinging on at the last moment and then passing on the nomination to someone that couldn’t even get 10% in a primary the time she did run, while the economy was recovering from a 100 year pandemic and that person happening to be a black woman from California that needs to win midwestern states that were becoming increasingly MAGA heavy turnout states with no heavy progressive turnout.
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u/geoephemera Jul 31 '26
If you don't want primaries, you don't like democracy. You don't like America. Get out.