The Democrats are almost certainly going to lose in the 2020 presidential election, and it is no one’s fault but their own.

Now, let me explain – before you either smile and slap my back or try to stab me through the printed word using nothing but sheer internet-esque rage.

The main problem the Democrats have is a lack of unity. The main strength the Republicans have is a united front. Almost all of the Republicans are willing to, at the end of the day, fall in line and go with what the party wants. They are a unified faction. Right now, they are a unified faction backing Donald Trump. Not all of them like or agree with him, but they understand that they need to stand together and work as one group to better achieve their overarching goals.

The Democrats do not have this understanding. Like, at all. 

You only need to look at the sheer number of Democratic candidates to see this in action: 20+ candidates, all stabbing each other in the back and clambering on top of one another in a desperate effort to make a name for themselves. In doing so, they attack the frontrunners like Biden, Sanders and Warren, revealing weaknesses in their party’s strongest candidates and making it harder for them to get elected. They also show the world the disunity of the Democratic party, disillusioning many people who would otherwise vote for them.

There is also the matter of the very public factions in the Democratic Party. The older guard like Pelosi are very different from the young guns like AOC. The former is much more pragmatic and willing to listen, and bend, to the rich and powerful. The latter want to impeach Trump and force mass changes on the country at large. The former call the latter naïve and foolish, the latter call the former corrupt and antiquated, and the world at large gets to see what should be private intra-factional disputes on televised display via the 24-hour news cycle.

What is more, there is the problem of third parties. When people get sick of the Democratic Party, they are much more likely to form their own. The Libertarian Party sucks away moderate voters, while the Green party sucks away more extreme voters. Both weaken the Democratic Party to a much, much greater extent than they could ever hope to hurt the Republican party.

All of this comes together to show that the Democratic Party’s greatest weakness is also its current raison d’etre: the inclusion of all and the allowance of all voices. By championing anyone and everyone, they are comprised of anyone and everyone. “Anyone and everyone” is not a composition that fosters unity. It fosters disunity, individual viewpoints and factions galore. The Republican Party marches in unison. The Democratic Party swarms chaotically, and this will cost them so, so much.

This chaotic swarming is going to be what costs them the election. They may win the popular vote, they may have more supporters at the end of the day, but unless they are capable of galvanizing themselves and moving forward in a more stable, cohesive manner, they will lose the next election. If there is one thing everyone agrees on about Trump, it is that he is a master of rocketing to victory against slower and less-organized opponents.