Ok, I’ve been waiting to dunk the ball on this for a while- yes, lots of actual Democratic voters did want Joe. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/17/opinion/joe-biden-president.html?smid=fb-share

To be clear, Joe basically lead start to finish. He had weaknesses with activists, which played up big in the early states, but not the broader electorate. Turns out most Dem primary voters aren’t activists.

Joe won a majority of the elected delegates, then some, the first Democrat to do so in a contested race since 2004. He did what we heard was impossible- building a coalition of black and white working class voters. He won a clean majority.

We heard lots of things- other campaigns had “better” policies, staffs, positions, speeches, crowds, etc. That was... incorrect.

So yes, I’m dunking on the author’s entire premise. And the argument in particular about Joe. There was a wild misread by the DC class about who the Democratic Party’s voters are. Just as there was after 2016, and why that race went the way it did.

So next time you read some group think like this... evaluate accordingly.