IAnd we all fucked it up for Beto/Kamala
I can agree with this.
The way Twitter-verse and then the media went guns blazing on Kamala was extremely short-sighted. Yeah her campaign had problems but some of those problems were amplified by Politico, NYT, and WaPo reporters constantly digging for dirt. The media will be the media, so whatever. But the establishment & moderates just let Left-Twitter devour Harris. There was no one out there defending her as Twitter, which often feeds the media narrative, tore into her in the late summer. That was definitely short-sighted because now moderates are crying that they don't have any good alternatives and now pinning their hopes on a white male billionaire jumping in at the last minute with zero grassroots. The exact opposite of what the Democratic party is trying to be.
I think Beto would have been a little more of a wild card because he has a penchant for speaking from his heart and raw emotion, which can sometimes get him in hot water. But similar to Kamala, he's one of the few very candidates who could pull the two wings of the party together. Beto has some very progressive policies, but on the whole most of his policies were more center-left. He wasn't trying to start a full revolution, but also felt wholesale incrementalism wasn't enough either.
I think both Beto and Kamala are where the majority of the party is. Left-Center-Left. Unfortunately in a primary, it seems you have to pick a lane. Either the progressive lane, to fire up the activist. Or the moderate lane to get the establishment / donor class to fill up the coffers. Kamala probably should have moved more decisively to the moderate lane and Beto should have moved to the progressive lane early before Warren beat him to it in the early summer. Beto still would have been to the right of Sanders and Harris would have been to the left of Biden/Klob/[insert white moderate].
