I'm posting this independently of the Politics Thread because that Mardi Gras Parade has got so many floats throwing candy, it would be tough to get a coherent sense of the replies.
I saw a news post saying Buttigieg is getting dogpiled in NH in response to his (shocked the hellouttame) strong performance in Iowa. I recall some previous candidate's comment that you know you're the frontrunner when you keep getting buckshot in the ass (imprecise quote, I'm sure).
Now, assuming that a party's goal is to nominate a candidate that will win the presidency, how good of an idea is it to basically have them perform Act 2 of The Godfather? Doesn't that merely leave them with a buncha scars'n'burns for the other party's candidate to poke at? I don't blame that for HRC's 2016 defeat, but she came out of that nomination donnybrook looking more like Cap tightening his shield in Avengers: Endgame than Thanos coming for The Mind Stone in Avengers: Infinity War. On the other hand, this kind of open sausage-making has some merits over the old, pre-Eisenhower-Smoke-Filled-Room-Convention process.
So, thoughts?
Oh, yeah. Please be nice. I know brass knuckles and pointy objects are the norm in political discourse these days, but let's go easy on each other.