In a very good New Yorker article about how Biden isn’t senile and convicted rapist and serial fraudster Donald Trump is (would be hard pressed to know that based on most reporting), a former Republican strategist makes a very good observation about professional Democrats (boldface mine):

That was no accident, according to Sarah Longwell, a former Republican strategist and a founder of the Bulwark news site. “Democrats do not build their own echo chambers the way Republicans do,” she said. “It’s a strange communications differential. It’s not rocket science: you create a narrative, you are relentless about promoting it, you have a million people all working from the same sheet of paper.” She continued, “I know that this is a thing with Democrats—it’s like herding cats—but if Biden is not the strongest communicator, why aren’t there hundreds of surrogates for him? Having spent a long time on the Republican side, I am constantly flabbergasted by the inability of Democrats to prosecute a case against Republicans relentlessly, with a knife in their teeth.”

There are a lot of reasons why this happens, but that it does is unquestionable, and it is, in no small part, why Democrats might lose this election. Professional Democrats need to understand that you have to repeat things over and over: once or twice won’t cut (Pelosi and Schumer were/are awful at this by the way). Too many professional Democrats think the political part of politics is beneath them, and we need new professional Democrats, sooner rather than later.