Since it's not possible to build a left through third-party presidential campaigns, yes. To build an alternative, focus on races not involving the Electoral College, and on electoral reform to undo the anti-democratic effects of the EC until we can finally get rid of it.
As I read the author, her point is-and I say this as a person who has issues with how Biden has intereacted with women in the past but doesn't actually think he's a "sex offender"- the Democratic establishment, having several other candidates in the race who were and are just as "electable" as Biden, should never have made such a relentless, heavyhanded push for the idea that he was the one we simply HAD to nominate. And the irony is that, in the end, Biden will get no votes no other possible Democratic nominee would not have won. Yes, we need to vote for him to get Trump out and also to possibly stop fascism- but NO, there was no reason for the party establishment to insist on putting us in this position.
However this election comes out,-and what I'm about to say below isn't aimed at you, but rather at the Democratic establishment- 2020 needs to be the LAST time the party leaders essentially pre-select a nominee and browbeat the rest of the party into just going along with it. Pre-selecting a "frontrunner'- as Dems have kep trying to do in every election we've fought as a party outside the White House, has never worked. it didn't work when they tried to do it with Mondale and Dukakis-yes, they had competition, but the competition was not responsible for the result- it didn't work with Gore- not that Al's a bad guy, it's just that essentially telling us beforehand that he was the one we were going to HAVE to go with as nominee failed to elect him- it didn't work for Kerry- a former peace activist who felt obligated to renounce everything he had stood for in 1971 an d run as a balanced-budget freak, a law and order fetishist and Iraq War hawk at a time when the country was rapidaly turning away from the war and there were no votes to be gained from running on a "we can do it better" position on that war- and it wouldn't have worked in 2016 to insist that Hillary be nominated without any primary opposition.
By contrast the last time we took the White House from the GOP was 2008- when we had closest nomination contest ever and the campaign was a true battle of ideas.
