They’re afraid that all of the republicans will just throw everything they said in 2020 right back at them, as if this situation is even remotely the same thing, and that it will make them look like the crazy ones.

Hell, even Liberals do that when you point out how the DNC leadership abuse their control of the primaries to make it many times more difficult for a progressive with popular policy positions to win than an out of touch establishment favorite.

The moment you mention that objectively real and undemocratic power imbalance, apparatchiks start with the “that’s EXACTLY the same as Trump said” gaslighting.