Nancy Pelosi. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
The punditry, like vultures, are feasting on the battlefield after the election. It’s not about lessons learned. It’s about their pre-existing agendas — inflicting damage on Democrats if they’re right-wingers, pulling the Democratic Party ever more to the right, if they’re centrists. There are even a few on the left who say that a Bernie Sanders platform would have won this election.
But when Nancy Pelosi speaks, I listen. She has no agenda other than winning. The Guardian has this today: “Nancy Pelosi says Biden’s delay in exiting race blew Democrats’ chances.”
Why would Nancy Pelosi zing her own party, in public? I think it’s because she wants to send a clear message to whoever was protecting Biden, with a warning to any future factions within the Democratic Party whose agenda is pushing a particular candidate rather than winning an election.
This has happened before, in 2016, when a strong faction within the DNC was determined to have Hillary Clinton, no matter what. And now it has happened again, with Biden. Both times, we lost.
Nancy Pelosi, please please stay with us through the 2028 election. And if something like this happens again, please tell us way, way before the election, not after.
Great article and thoughts.
Why would anyone protect Joe, if they knew he was suffering cognitively? To encourage him to run wasn’t well thought out. I can’t imagine his wife would put him in such a position.
Similarly, RBG’s death in 2020 gave Trump the opportunity to insert another conservative on the Supreme Court. The Right seems to have a strategy, and it seems that it’s to wait for the Democrats to make a mistake which seems to happen often.