Definitely. When you are in their position you have that hopelessness in the comfort of your private spaces but do your best to drum up fire and fight publicly.

Yeah the moment they started publicly doubting Biden no amount of "well just shut up and vote" was going to fix that and undo the damage that is done.

If we hadn't had literally instant internal party panic we could have made it through that but now we absolutely need to change tactics.

They need to stop talking about how this sucks or how we lose but how we rise and play the fucking game like it means something but it's hard to get 80 year old narcissists who want just a little bit more to ever do anything else other than what they want.

Which is a real problem because his Vice President favorably compared Trump to Hitler and wants to ban porn

It wasn't a favorable comparison. He was a "Never Trumper" until Trump was the obvious nominee this time.

Depressed Biden turnout and energized Trump turnout.

I don't know why people keep thinking it's about switching votes. The side that gets their supporters to turn out is the side that wins.

First Past The Post voting artificially limits the number of viable political parties to two. This leaves a huge portion of the electorate disenfranchised.

It's a little bit of both. You have your hardcore Republicans and Democrats who will always vote for their party and a lot of independents who who are just barely paying attention and vote for "the one I'd have a beer with". There's also the situation in Gaza that has people voting 3rd party to protest Biden's handling of the situation even though it'll be much worse with Trump.

A lot of others can't be bothered to vote unless it's someone they're excited to vote for like we had with Obama.

Also not in the USA but I think the fear is that people that didn't vote at all last time will vote for Trump now

Primarily the second. Biden barely won some key swing states (look up the Electoral College and all the bs that brings into US elections) in an election with higher turnout than any in the past century, 4 years of Trumps general fuckery in the immediate past, and an ongoing pandemic. (tbf, the pandemic should have been in Trump's favor, but he's Trump, so...yeah)

Public memory is short, and along with very recent stumbles and valid criticisms of certain positions of his, Biden is coming into this election very much on the back foot, even among his base, while Trump is going strong as ever. He needs every vote he can get and he's not getting anywhere near the support he had in 2020. It's looking pretty dour overall.