Why should the Democrats be taking advice from a Republican strategist

Consistency?

Primaries are also weird because depending on what state you live in the election is often decided before you even get to vote. Imagine living in a state as big as California and having no impact on the primary.

If the general election can be one day maybe so can the primary.

So the Democratic Party doesn't actually favor democracy?

Next you'll tell me North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, isn't actually democratic either.

The Dems coronated Biden while screaming at the top of their lungs how much they love democracy.

Goddamn I am tired of being gaslit.

Super tired of bullshit.

Tired of lies. Just because Trump lies 10 times for every 7 words he speaks does not mean I want a party that claims to rep my interests for me to lie to me 4 times for every 7 words. Jesus fucking H Christ. "But we the Dems only raped you a little bit, and the GOP will rape you more." Go fuck yourselves with that logic, Dem scum.

We need a giant country-wide systemic reset and the Dem leadership is thinking what kind of crumb they can still throw at the plebs without upsetting their precious billionaire donors.

The Dems slow-walked us to fascism while blaming the GOP. The Dems take zero personal responsibility.

The Democratic Party cannot fail us, it can only be failed by us.

I voted uncommitted for a lot of reasons, and this is one of them. Getting Biden out and having a brokered convention certainly expresses my democratic will.

Right? I don't remember seeing a debate or anything. It's equivalent to those elections people make fun of in North Korea, where the choices are the leader and nobody.

His percentages were even higher than Putin in those races

I don't think he can do it.

And if he can, why the hell isn't he?!?!

If the reason to vote for Biden is that he isn't Trump, why shouldn't the dems run a candidate that both isn't Trump and is most likely going to hold onto their mental competence into next year? Either way, they're going to get the "not Trump" vote which by your reasoning should still cover the vast majority of would-be Biden voters.

We (read: Dems) can rally around him all we want. The point of the debate was to convince independents, uninformed voters never-Trumpers so that the polls start to look more favorable. Biden failed to do that and has no meaningful opportunity to do so for the rest of the campaign.

The informed Democrats can rally around him as much as they want, but he is still falling short, which is why a pivot seems risky but like the only real shot left

This movement wouldn't have any traction if Biden put on even a middling debate performance. We all saw Biden start to answer a question about abortion, then get confused and switch midway into talking about some woman killed by an immigrant. You don't need a grand conspiracy, it's a simple case of grandpa being too full of pride to give up his car keys. Except in this case the car is American democracy.

Biden was a great president. He should have asked in his accomplishments and set up a new generation of dem leaders. Instead, he let his pride get in the way, ignored his own decline, tried to hide it by refusing interviews and non-scripted public events, even the softball traditional pre superbowl interview, and then had that disaster of a debate. Yes, I'll still vote for the corpse of Biden if it means stopping Trump. But will swing voters? What about Trump to Biden voters in purple districts? What about young people and anyone already pissed about the genocide in Gaza? Is the "corpse is better than Trump" argument going to motivate infrequent voters to turn out? Better fucking hope so, cause Biden has us in this fucked position, is refusing to back down, so I guess we'll find out.

This is just braindead gaslighting. We all saw his performance. Dedicated Democratic cheerleaders like the Pod Save America guys think it's the worst debate performance ever and needs to be carefully considered whether he can turn things around (and frankly, are leaning toward the "he can't" side). Democratic leaders have been giving guarded answers about how they support Biden's decision on whether to stay in, not that he should of course stay in. This isn't remotely "media moguls" doing. The wagon circling is transparent and stupid and not working.

There was an event the next day where he gave a speech to a friendly crowd and by comparison he sounded like a spry well organized guy half his age. Hardly a mention of that out there though. I'm not a big fan of his miliqtost, half steps on a lot of things but it's playing the game with what cards are available and having decades in political office gives you the experience to do it. I'm largely willing to write off the debate as being so flustered with the torrent of bullshit coming from Trump that it put him off balance.

Biden is splitting Democrats. The center-left is split, and now even the centrists are starting to split among themselves.

Right. Every “vote blue no matter who” voter will be voting blue no matter who it is. It’s just a vote against Trump. No one is going out specifically to vote for Biden. Could swap him out with any other warm body with a half functional brain and it would only mean extra votes.

I can't read the article myself due to the paywall. But presumably these quotes are by the same individual? Why would any Democrat campaign take the advice of someone who has spent decades helping to get Republican presidents elected? Why would he offer his advice to them at all? Certainly not in good faith. And why would he be an expert at what makes a good choice regarding nominees? His campaigns have presumably lost as many as they've won and their electorate is motivated by fundamentally different things. And never has there been a situation like this for either party during an election, a former president and convicted felon and current president circling the drain.

I don't necessarily disagree with the sentiment, but given the source I don't give the slightest fuck what his view point is on matters of the Democratic Party.

Lemmy will shriek for months that progressives want Trump to win, then immediately believe that a Republican strategist isn't encouraging them to stick with a candidate who is going to lose if he stays in the race.