I'm not picking on you specifically, but the left doesn't need to aggrandize the GOP and shouldn't try to mimic their more dysfunctional behaviors in order to win elections. This requires some hope, but if the Dems can find a really good communicator that's cool it'll go a LONG way to revealing how fragile the GOP 2024 coalition was.
@Bozo_Casanova has been beating this drum (and for the record and for @bolverk, I disagree with him somewhat on "it's the singer, not the song"), and it's been also getting discussed by all the of the lefty podcasters--throw out 2024, that was a self-own by Biden and the rest of the party and it's not going to teach helpful lessons next year or when the race heats up in 2027.
Instead, what they/we need to acknowledge is that the way information is getting passed from elites to everyone else, from business to consumer, from neighbor to neighbor, etc., has had a revolutionary change in the last decade. I'll give you an example--my 75 year dad asked me yesterday "Do you know what Reels are? I've been watching those, they are so funny!" He's not watching 60 Minutes, he's consuming media via the shit we mock as the domain of ignorant Gen Z.
Whoever masters the new media environment is likelier than not to win elections. Do that and pick a few policies that are broadly popular like David Shor recommends and see who's best at getting attention in a long primary season.