Because the democratic party likes to be mayors instead of leaders
Because she was installed?
Because the Democrats are not a progressive party and don’t listen to progressive voices.
There wasn’t time and they were too busy losing to AIPAC backed candidates.
https://truthout.org/articles/aipac-targets-progressive-lawmakers-with-record-spending/
more time would have just made Harris’ margin of loss even bigger. She lost more than a percent in the last month of the race, bit by bit every day-- all by parading around with republicans and whatever that arsehole mark cuban is. And supporting Bidens genocide was a dumb move.
There wasn’t time for a 50 state primary…
I cant prove it, but I imagine the lack of will for it led to the lack of time for it.
The 2020 primary ran from February to August, 6 months. Not counting the years worth of campaigning before the first primary.
Biden stepped down from running 7/21, which means they would have had 1 month to run the primary before the Democratic convention.
You can’t condense a 6 month schedule down into 1 month, can’t be done. Or if could be done, it would take more than a month to plan the logistics of it.
This paragraph I don’t understand:
Only the movements in solidarity with Palestinian freedom offered a substantive challenge to the Harris coronation, as it remains the only issue impervious to party influence. To be sure, the absence of a primary for the Democratic Party lessened the ability of progressive forces to push back against Harris galloping rightward.
What does it mean to say the opposition to genocide was “impervious to party influence”?
I do agree the one clear problem was lack of a primary-- that’s the major structural difference from 2020. Without a primary you can’t prove who has the votes and who is voting, it was easy for them to pretend “progressives won’t vote” even though from this article it is clear progressives delivered via in Biden’s election.
Biden’s win had less to do with progressives and more to do with higher voter turnout.
The reason 2020 voter turnout was higher was because of emergency vote by mail regulations due to Covid.
Without more people voting by mail, participation dropped.
What does it mean to say the opposition to genocide was “impervious to party influence”?
It means the democratic party couldnt shut it down.
