He is a successful politician. The party is giant and complex. To me, the biggest factor was his support of wealth taxes, which puts him firmly in a different camp than Biden, Warren and Bloomberg, and caused him to be opposed by everybody with power in the DNC. That is the only "line" they really mean to fall into, and it doesn't even affect the average American.

This is why I un-registered and voted Jill Stein as an independent voter.

That, plus the infuriating, incessant spam texts.

>Conformity, if you'll pardon me, is not a trait all those Americans who voted for Trump have, nor want.

I'm sure that's what all 72 million of them think. Including the ones (the majority?) who don't like Trump, but who thought a vote for Harris was anathema.

Anyway, I wrote in Bernie. Yes, yesterday.

Thanks for this comment! That does seem to explain a lot of why Dems keep losing. Americans are, first and foremost, for individual freedom and the DNC has a tendency to want to bypass that