Yeah, this. I worry that just anointing Harris might result in even poorer results than Biden might have…the resentment against another person that is viewed as it just being “their turn” will be palpable.

If there is one thing that really annoyed people about Hillary, it was the narrative that she somehow deserved it, that it was just “time for a woman to lead” and all that. I don’t know how much Hillary actually said this, but if she wasn’t, others definitely were.

One way to get someone to just stay home or actively vote against you is to give the impression that you somehow are just owed that political seat. Donnie might be the one exception when it comes to his idiotic and delusional cult/base - the amount of butthurt that guy expresses even about having people oppose him during his term - he thinks he deserves a “third term” or some such nonsense. But he’s definitely the exception, and I think the impression Hillary had around her rubbed even liberals the wrong way at times, most especially if they were not white women (I heard many white women just keep repeating that it’s “her turn”. That was cloying even for me, and I voted for her.).