i get all of that. the problem really is that the leadership didn't want to be challenged in a primary because their puppet-masters are and have always been Bloomberg, Steyer and the liberal faction of the billionaire fascistocracy. at the end of the day, billionaires were their king maker. the party is literally now functioning as a mafia cartel SO MUCH SO the people who wrote out the cartel party theory 30 years ago to describe post USSR EU had to re-write it to include USA