I'll start off by pointing out that last 3 primaries have been some kind of funny business.
- 2016: Bernie snuffed by Hillary with shady tactics that lead to the D losing to Trump (lol).
- 2020: Everyone drops like flies to support Biden (sus, but allegedly because Trump and Covid were bad).
- 2024: Biden waits until the last second to announce dropping, there seems to be momentum to skip the Primary and go with Kamala Harris.
Assuming everything I've stated is accurate-enough, do you think the average person is likely to feel like this isn't Democracy? Or will this be business as usual for the US? Will the absence of censorship on tiktok be likely change anything?
For this reason, until there is a primary that Kamala wins, I want every mention of Kamala Harris to be prefixed with a formal title like Kamala Harris, the appointed, the unelected, in a similar vein as Mother of Dragons, Daenerys Targaryen.
2020 is worse than you recall, Buttigieg and Klobuchar are phoned by Obama the weekend before Super Tuesday to drop out and endorse Biden, who'd ate shit worse than them in the preceeding contests. Warren stays in, reneges on everything she'd campaigned on to work with a Super PAC just so she could get 3rd in her home state.
2020 was even worse than that, tbh: https://web.archive.org/web/20201105081005/http://berniewouldhavelost.com/