Its not really about West.While we like having a big name on the ticket 2024 is going to be a big Green Party year like 2000/2016 no matter who the nominee is.2024 is about letting the Dem party know Joe Biden type presidencies is unacceptable to progs,blacks,hispanics and climate voters.
It better not be about West then if there are not examples of him being a towering beast.

I and others obviously dispute your conviction about those groups uniformity hating Biden all that much they are willing to let Trump back in.
He who will purge judges etc and finish democracy there, cut the golden thread as it were.
Progressives at times remind me of Irish Republican Army types back when I was born who convinced themselves that just blowing it all up because gradual change was not floating their boat and screwed things up for a long time was right.
Had cooler heads prevailed the world changed around Northern Ireland apartheid/sectarianism anyway but the fighting had so much momentum many suffered for years more than would have.
There is a personality type attached to this. Maybe I exhibit it sometimes myself but I was guided by older wiser people.
There was a time when I was ready to catch a lot of mining company execs and make drink them cyanide they had poachers put in waterholes. Shipping back containers of African beastie's bits to China had become a nice bonus for them. Four years of killing myself and I was so dispirited.
However I had a good talking to and understood they would just be replaced. I had to look at this over decades and probably past my own lifetime until the world was ready to let the elephants and such live. We would bank the DNA and keep the ones we could alive to preserve their complex behaviours, study them.
Basically, I get being pissed off after wasted efforts but responding most effectively, is better?