That's about where I'm at.

Democrats have very thoroughly exhausted their benefit of the doubt. Maybe I just think too highly of them somehow but I don't believe they're really completely incapable of developing an electoral strategy with decades of real time feedback on what doesn't work.

At a certain point if somebody keeps jumping on the same rake in the same place everyday you start to realize they should be able to avoid that by now.

They'd rather lose appealing to moderates than let progressives into the same building as the levers of power.