The Dems are suffering a dearth of talent because, instead of cultivating young prospective future candidates in the Obama years, Hillary wielded her financial ties to snooker the party, because 2016 was HER TURN. She did all this and still had to cheat to beat an 80 year old socialist who isn't even a party member, but with her loss to Trump the damage is done.
In terms of talent acquisition / retention, the DNC is a good decade behind where they ought to be as a party. Younger, fresher faces should have been put front and centre years ago. Not the likes of Pete Buttigieg or Tulsi Gabbard themselves, but people of that age cohort / racial demographic / political leaning need to be internalising the party message and seeing promotion if the party is to have a future.
Hillary totally banjaxed the Democrats because they figured victory was in the bag, so could afford to basically stall this natural process for about 5 years (keep in mind, absent Hillary, many young promising figures would've carved out names for themselves with the party's endorsement during that 2016 primary). Instead they've got a leadership and a branding problem. Their leadership, forgetting their '''insufferable whiteness'''-- (cringe but a good point btw for a party who's support is 30% of white Americans and 90% everybody else in the country) they're all outrageously old.
Biden is undoubtedly senile. Schumer is profoundly uncharismatic for somebody so high profile, and it's not even she's ill-suited, Nancy Pelosi should not have to be speaker at this stage. She was in school when the nukes were dropped on Japan, she should have been let out to pasture years ago, but the party can't do that because there's no guarantee whoever her successor is will be either competent or maintain the same ideological trappings.
And in the end, it's all Hillary's fault. lmao.
