Back in 2020 he was a supposed frontrunner struggling to look like one, fresh off a sluggish performance in the 2020 Iowa caucuses. He asked New Hampshire voters to help him flip the narrative and deliver him a comeback. He snarked back at critics, belittled a younger challenger and called one woman “a lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign event.
Then he skipped his own campaign party, headed to South Carolina, and finished a distant fifth in New Hampshire’s primary, faring worse than the former mayor of a midsized Midwestern city.
I would have no issue with this if they changed their bylaws to state this is how things are done. The fact is, they purport to a democratic process but then fuck all over it. it’s their rules, and they can’t follow it.
it would, however, likely cause a split in the party, since there’s a lot of people already unhappy with the DNC, and actually saying the quiet part out loud would probably fracture the “big tent”