Mark my words: they will put Kamala 2.0. or Gavin in the race for president instead of AOC or any other progressive.

That's the crucial difference between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans pick a candidate they love and they think will represent them. They fire up their base, and that momentum carries them all the way through to election day.

Democrats are too clever by half. They try to play strategy and select the candidate that is most electable, where "electable" simply means boring, centrist, and moderate. They end up nominating candidates that can't excite the hearts and passions of anyone. The only thing they can then run on is, "at least I'm better than the Republican." Politics is about passion. Always has been, always will be. Democrats strategize themselves right into loss after loss.

You can bitch about it and say that we should select candidates based on purely technocratic matters, but that's not how human beings work. We're emotional irrational creatures. We want leaders that will stir passion in the soul. And those are the type of leaders people vote for. And really, you're better off voting based on character than policy statements anyway. The policy statements for a candidate are usually nothing more than a wishlist and are quickly forgotten.