i keep in my mind all the time that *howard dean* was considered too much of a rabble rouser for the party's liking and they replaced him with tim kaine as chairman to get fucking smoked in 2010 notably, dean's (and the 50 state strategy's) biggest hater within the party? rahm fucking emmanuel!
The funny thing is when Dean was chair Dems won bigger than they had in decades or since
same as obama skipping the line and winning big and the party being eternally pissed at him for it: winning big isn't what matters. what matters is if it's your turn and if you kiss the ring or not.
and walz actually had Rs panicking for a hot minute with the "weirdos" and "dipshits" narratives so naturally that had to be quashed posthaste
Emphasizing this because it is harmonic with the GOP midterm trans panic campaign flopping so hard. They were seen as weirdos for being so fixated on bathrooms and girls sports until they had two years to keep beating that drum unchallenged
i bet if we get pete to do a silly enough yell we can get him blackballed by the dnc
The yell came after the writing was on the wall, as evident by the “dated dean married kerry” stickers and pins in iowa. Difference is “we support a dude who sucks, strategically” causing a loss brought about a reckoning that allowed the party to win briefly
dean really sits in my mind because it's one thing for the party to not support somebody for president, but for them to not even let him do the nitty gritty strategy/bureaucracy stuff even after he did a GREAT JOB AT IT with a strategy that WON BIG? come on now