

Cut her some slack, it takes a long time for donor approved political consultants to run all the focus groups to be 100% sure that saying a negative thing about an establishment figure won’t have any negative impact on their priorities. You can’t just rush into a new messaging line.
Well unless it’s correcting course away from some accidental progressivism. You can get that ready in a day. You’ll come across as fake and corrupt and lose the election, but that’s not what’s most important.
YOU are the one causing the division! JFC, dropping in, saying “no women” and then complaining about division is just incredible.
The “they’re just sexist, that was the problem” isn’t just some random observation from people trying to just figure out what works. It’s an intentional campaign to scapegoat women for losses caused by the political class who keep trying to run the same campaign and failing.
They’re not coming with hyper-cautious analyses saying “no women, no abandoning the base, no campaigning with Republicans, no timid neoliberal policies”. They’d still be wrong, but at least that would seem like a legit attempt by a simple mind to avoid anything that might possibly be a weakness. Instead they just stop with the first. They’re looking for a scapegoat, because all those other factors were getting pretty unpopular in the party and they desperately needed some other explanation.