One thing the Crockett defenders don’t seem to understand is that this point isn’t a gotcha. To the contrary, it’s the entire reason why it was important for her to mobilize her very large and extremely impressive base in the first place! Like almost any Democrat running statewide in a deeply red place, Talarico is going to lose the white vote badly. So, in addition to minimizing those losses, he needs to maximize Democratic turnout and gains elsewhere — something Crockett, with her impressive base and significant influence (1 million votes!), was uniquely positioned to help do. But in order for her to want to do that, she’d have to have a genuine interest in helping Democrats win a Senate race in Texas for the first time in 38 years, take back the Senate, and prioritize protecting healthcare, food stamps, education, and the broader social safety net on behalf of tens of millions of vulnerable people, all of which have been badly undermined by Republican control over the past two years. But the rub is, Crockett doesn’t actually care about those policies, those people, or those things. Crockett cares about one thing and one thing only, and that’s Crockett. Because she’s a narcissistic fraud.

She’s literally the opposite of irrelevant, which is the entire point of the thread.

Crockett is rapidly emerging as a top contender in an already highly competitive field to become quite literally the most insufferable person in all of Democratic politics It takes a special kind of megalomaniacal narcissist to constantly and compulsively make yourself the center of attention at every single waking hour of the day while folks are simply trying to focus on taking back the Senate & winning Texas for the first time in 38 years I don’t mean this disparagingly, but some people would be better served by seeking therapy than politics — and Crockett is exhibit A

Crockett received more than a million votes in her Senate campaign and has done virtually nothing of substance to mobilize those voters for Talarico. She has explicitly declined to campaign for him, even as Democrats are trying to take back the Senate from the very party she correctly argues is inflicting immense harm on millions of defenseless people. So yes, what Crockett chooses to do (or not to do) with the enormous political influence she built during that campaign is extremely relevant here. You don’t get to spend a campaign telling people the stakes are existential and then, after you lose, pretend your own conduct is somehow beyond criticism. But in defense of Crockett, she’s a narcissistic fraud, so asking her to put the greater good ahead of herself was perhaps an unreasonable premise from the start.