giving money and cushy jobs to your friends, trying to crush the left, not willing to actually put in the work and planning time to even be effective on this and relying on sheer reserved power and institutional inertia to do most of the work for you: every dem motivation wrapped up in one

the best comparison for a lot of dem operations, imo, is private equity. huge money for the people at the top, skeleton crews with bullshit pay and ridiculous expectations and limitations for everyone below them, and don't retain any infrastructure from year to year, just move right on