Remember the 2018 California primaries, where people got grumpy with the DCCC for intervening to help the strongest-seeming candidate avoid being locked out? This is what happens when national Dems don't do that. https://twitter.com/PatrickSvitek/status/1388653946781196291

Like, Lydia Bean lost a 2020 state rep race by 9 points, jumped into this one, got the Texas AFL-CIO endorsement, and is cruising around 4% of the vote.

This is basically what would have happened in the district 10 years ago, when Dems were uncompetitive. Their problem now: People are feeling their oats about "blue Texas" so a bunch of credible-ish candidates with no path to victory piled in.