That's the thing. I'm not a militant left winger. I'm part of the Democratic mainstream that the left wingers call right wing, and they're probably correct. I'd be considered center-right in most European countries. I am very angry at that segment of the left who won't vote for Democrats and instead leave us with literal fascists.

And yet they are still more likely allies than Republican "centrists". They just voted for a felon and an insurrectionist. They knew that he was incompetent, stupid, and deliberately hostile. They voted for him because he's not the Democrat.

I will not be able to change their minds. Any candidate I vote for will always be their enemy. They're not just waiting for a kind word from me to put that hostility behind them and be nice centrist friends.

The Democratic party still has not accepted that. And they will continue to lose.