In the intent for fairness yes, but I'm terms of staying in power, they couldn't open the primary. They knew the tide was turning. Their best bet going into 2024 was having an uncontested incombent. If they opened the Primary it would have fractured the party. Joe Biden was a compromise candidate, that was probably only agreed upon because of a desperation to beat Trump. October 7th was more damaging to the Democratic party than to Israel, it threw the Progs off the reservation and they think they run things now. Had they been allowed to vote on a primary they'd be pushing a Libshit minority candidate worse than Kamala. If they didn't get it, they'd probably have fractured off the party or at least be extremely disenfranchised.
They didn't want an open primary but they didn't want Kamala either. They wanted to just throw someone on the stage at the DNC and never have the Progs thinking about who they'd choose, just crown someone and immediately hit them with media hype.
Karine Jean Pierre faked that Biden dropping out letter that endorsed Kamala. That wasn't the plan, the establishment was going to steal the nomination and the Progs fucked them over. That's why we had a few days where it wasn't really clear what was going to happen, the power brokers were trying to figure out how to deal with that wrench, and eventually decided stiffing Kamala was worse than running her.
Trump definitely would of won with out Butler. The really landmark thing was winning the popular vote. Twenty years ago that was agreed to pretty much be impossible for a Republican, they'd only ever win the electoral college. I don't know if Trump wins the Popular Vote with our Butler. There are 4 key things I think that lead to such a historic victory in 2024. Butler is a big one, but I think the Georgia Mugshot is just as significant. RFK Jr I don't think was as critical but I think it helped a lot, and lastly Kamala Harris is probably the worst main party candidate since maybe Mondale. No one comes even close in my lifetime. Making the decision to reveal KJP's fraud was really a lose lose situation, but I really think they would of lost less of they had snubbed Kamala and ran Newsom or Whitmore