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The Republican party got remade because trumpists showed up and outvoted the party elites. No reason it can't happen for the Left except for laziness and apathy.
If all the progressives furious about the state of affairs now had shown up for Sanders in 2016, I doubt we'd be in this hellish timeline. Sadly, he needed the young progressive vote to show up.
Party Control of Party Primaries: Party Influence in Nominations for the US Senate
That's not being rigged, it's a Democratic Party election. No shit someone from outside the party will have less influence.
Unfortunately I cannot read that paper without paying money to a journal. Would you care to provide a summary of the methodology?
I am so torn between a trollish 'no fuck you' and a genuine 'samesies' and it's left me emotionally vulnerable in a way I'm deeply uncomfortable with. Fuck you.
Bernie did better in caucus states [controlled directly by the Party] than he did in states with primaries.
Wonder how he would have done in California if the most populous wealthy state didn't vote 47th.
Please stop thinking about Bernie and start thinking about Obama.
Obama had less time in the Senate and was way behind Hilary in every single poll when he started.
If Obama could do it, the next one can too.