We are not doomed.
This article is another mental masturbation fantasy by Cilizza and CNN.
Booker, Harris and others like them will be polling in the <2% range and will not be a factor.
Well, someone will emerge as the Democrat nominee. And that nominee will have 200+ electoral votes virtually guaranteed right off the bat, because so many people in key states automatically vote Democrat.
Booker and Harris look like longshots to me too, but someone is going to be the Democrat nominee, and that person will get the votes of all the people who supported Harris and Booker in the primaries.