Ask the average person, they'll tell you the DNC tried to keep Sanders from the nomination in '16. Though certainly true that the party establishment wanted HRC to win, there was only 1 party that actively worked against a nominee in '16: the RNC against Trump. Indeed, the entire
brain trust of the GOP worked actively to derail Trump's candidacy, even forming an social movement to do so, Never Trump. Via various SuperPacs, the GOP establishment funneled millions of dollars into trying to keep Trump from winning. Yet, the popular narrative is that it was
the Ds, bc there were snarky emails strategically released by the Russians. Image what the RNC emails look like? Now, we have the opposite scenario. The whole of the Republican Party has coalesced around Trump & via control of state parties, has eliminated the Republican Primary
to ensure that not only Trump wins, but that no one can even present a challenge to his nomination. It is the most heavy-handed, top-down, anti-Democratic effort within a party nomination ever to occur in the modern nominating system, but since its the Trump Era: 🦗🦗🦗
