Electability is BS, when the party itself works against the base’s choice for primary candidate. You know that though. “Electable” “conservatives” have destroyed the Republic just as much as the most ardent liberal Democrats. Trump was not “electable” but the alternative would have been open-borders Jeb. I get the sense you and Jeb would get along swimmingly.
You sense entirely wrong.
If you do not understand that letting an un-electable candidate win the primary assures another Dem vote in the House or Senate, or even worse, not caring about it, there is no need to try to engage in any further conversation.
We have a one vote margin in the Senate, rather then 4 or 5 due to nominating un-electable candidates.
That is reality, not wishes, dreams, or “senses”
PS:
Primaries are sort of like deciding what to wear to a gunfight. One may look cool, but that does not matter.
General elections are like the gunfight itself. Second prize is a (political) pine box.