^ I agree, mostly. But I don't think GOTV/organizing is
completely useless. I think it needs to be done differently, with more money and resources and a long-term presence, so 365 days a year. The party really needs organic organizing though, not just paid. Paid organizing can only do so much. Unions and other community groups that involve copious numbers of people who interact with their community on a daily basis to help drive voting. In this sense, Democrats letting unions rot is one of the worst mistakes they could have made over the past generation.
What really needs to stop is presidential candidates lighting hundreds of millions of dollars on fire with TV ads that barely do anything. How many lost elections and different studies do we need to show that it is useless?
I posted a thread about this with a good Atlantic piece about how most campaign tactics do not work:
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=273865.0