Because it’s not our job. Tom Scocca gets at something about ‘amateur expertise’ that I’ve been trying to express coherently (boldface mine):

The image might have convinced me that baseball was too complicated for an amateur to grasp. But down through the years—into this listless and mediocre seventh season of what was supposed to be Mike Elias’ brilliant rebuilding project—the lesson I’ve taken from it is more or less the opposite: A sports executive is a professional, paid to spend all their time knowing the difference between good and bad players, understanding what moves to make and how to fit a winning roster together. If the team stinks, they did a bad job.

Chuck Schumer threw Donald Trump a six-month lifeline to keep the government running, and Trump spent those six months looting the country and trashing things. The United States is further outside the rule of law than it’s been in my entire lifetime. Chuck Schumer fucked up! Ezra Klein doesn’t have to demonstrate that he personally has a better idea of how to manage a Senate minority under fascist assault than Schumer does. He can still tell the Democrats they screwed up last time…

When the experts fail, no one is under any obligation to explain how they personally might have been a superior expert, themselves… Mike Elias is getting millions of dollars a year to identify which players are going to be healthy and successful and which ones aren’t. After seven seasons at that job, he’s won zero playoff games and currently presides over a last-place team. Mike Elias is a bad baseball executive!

Pundits nowadays all think they’re really political strategists, and fans think they’re all general managers, but they aren’t, and they don’t need to be. It’s fine to judge leaders and institutions by their results.

One weakness of the Democratic Party are Democratic primary voters–and I write that as a Democratic primary voter myself, is too many of them, instead of demanding what they want out of politics from their representatives in non-technical terms, pretend they’re amateur political operatives and try to appeal to a largely nonexistent ‘gettable voter’–and are doing so with even less and worse information than the professionals.

Add to that the bizarre parasocial relationship some Democratic primary voters have with elected officials, and it’s just a fucking mess. Instead, when Democrats fail–and failing to prevent the return of fascism definitely counts–it’s time, as the manager in the move Bull Durham said, “Son, it’s time to make a change in the organization.” We need better. We deserve better.