I had said some time ago I'd offer a more complete roundup after some earlier posts. This will have to do, so we have something for today to warm the hearts of #BlueAnon even as they pull their pussy hats out of storage for four years.
Some of these will apply to the 2024 election in general, not just Biden.
1? Joe Biden himself, the big picture, mainly the Dementia Joe. Breaking his one-term promise (maybe he forgot he made that) then, until the last week of his term, being Irish Alzheimer's stubborn enough (or maybe just actual Alzheimer's stubborn enough) to insist he would have won had he stayed in the race. By not dropping out MUCH sooner, he (in part) prevented an actual primary cycle.
2? Joe Biden being full of shit up to the very end and Kamala as a Zionist Cop not rejecting that, nor Democratic national leaders in general.
3? Linked in that No. 2, Biden going Cold War 2.0. That said, he wasn't alone; behind the hawks of Tony Blinken and others on the inside, plenty of Democrat Congresscritters signed off on the Ukraine War and on Warmonger Joe stonewalling Putin day and night from the beginning.
4? White House, and Dem Congresscritter, enablers. Some of that's at the link above. More here at the Guardian:
In public, Phillips was ridiculed. In private, others shared his concerns. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, recalled receiving a call from a Democratic senator in late January or early February 2024.
“I said, ‘Is there any particular reason why you called me? I’d like to know.’ He said, ‘You do realise, off the record, that Joe Biden is not going to be our nominee?’ I was stunned. I said, ‘What, how, why?’ He said, ‘I just was at a meeting with him with several other senators and he couldn’t even function. We can’t run him.’”
Sabato added that the senator in question tried to raise the issue, which angered the White House. “He was punished, as several of them were. They gave him the cold shoulder for a while. The point is that a lot of people had figured it out but they didn’t care. I’m stunned that they got away with it and have produced term two for Trump and it’s going to be the longest four years of our life.”
More weirdly yet, James Clyburn continues to be as much of a true believer in-non Dementia Joe as is Biden himself, as detailed at that link.
5? Media enablers. Here, I'm talking about MSM that many rank and file #BlueAnon thought were picking on Biden early-to-mid 2024, but even more, MSM-like opining sites. Some of these are smaller, but some are big enough they had not only heard the rumors about Biden's competence; whether being gatekeepered by the people in No. 4, or else having personal interactions, they knew the score with Biden. And kept silent. Per that Guardian piece, some of the insiders at these sites were picking up on at least bits of this a year ago themselves. And for "access" reasons like those above, taking a pass. That's detailed:
The administration continued to play down concerns about Biden’s age and gave short shrift to any journalist who dared raise it.
There you are.
That even more includes intra-Democrat opinion media. Like the full-of-shit Akilah Hughes.
6? Dem Party potential primary candidate enablers. Eugene McCarthy, consequences be damned, challenged LBJ while chickenhawk Bobby Kennedy sat on the sidelines. RFK Jr had jumped ship long before this, but wasn't popular anyway. Ditto for Marianne Williamson. But, where was a Gretchen Whitmer, or Cal's Gov. Pothole, Gavin Nuisance, now among 2028 nomination touts? Hell, where was Bernie Sanders? So, you lose a third time as Dear Leader finds a replacement for the late Harry Reid to shiv you. Instead, you stayed silent, too. That said, contra Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski, no, you wouldn't have won. But, you didn't even run. You didn't even talk about running.
In other words, even if Biden was stubborn, nobody but backbencher Dean Phillips would challenge him, setting aside Brainworm Bobby and Ms. New Age, until it was too late to do anything but shove Harris forward.
7? Related. Democrat tribalism, infighting and self-preservation that became ever more visible after Election Day started well before.
8? Beyond Biden, the Democrat Party's general national stance on Israel-Gaza. Even the touted, vaunted, full of crap herself AOC couldn't bring herself to vote against much, because her goal is climbing the Dem organizational ladder.
9? Misreading the midterms. This applies a bit in general, but primarily to Biden. Dems' success in Congressional races numbed them to Biden perhaps not connecting to the general public, discussed at that Guardian link by old Clintonista Paul Begala. Democrats as a party misread the 2022 midterms room for 2024 on Dobbs, above all. The fact that red states, even, in more than one state, extended abortion protections while voting Trump at least as solidly as 2022 shows that. OTOH, Dems made up five seats, with vacancies, in the House while holding Republicans to no gains, and lost only two Senate seats. So, here, the misreading was primarily Harris' — and Biden's before that.
10? Kamala Harris is a bad campaigner. It ain't hard getting elected to statewide office in California. You just have to win the Dem primary. But, her 2020 presidential campaign showed she wasn't ready for the big stage, and other than the post-DNC surge last year, nothing in 2024 showed otherwise. Sure, she had the difficulty of Team Biden staff second-guessing her, as did some Obama alums, but her campaigning in places like Pennsylvania was horrible all on its own.