The Democratic Party has a problem...

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47. Put the "blame" were it belongs: squarely in the lap of the candidate who disqualified himself...

Put the "blame" where it belongs: squarely in the lap of the candidate who disqualified himself, and not on the party or the voters for refusing to tolerate it.

The primary voters are the ones who were shortchanged here, not overridden. They voted based on the information they had at the time. Finding out later that a candidate hid serious moral or legal flaws means the initial choice was made under false pretenses. We now have a chance to make a necessary correction.

Forcing a candidate out for misconduct is NOT a subversion of democracy... it is a defense of it. Considering the massive wave of endorsements that have already dropped him, it is clear that voters and party leaders alike share that same sense of regret. It is quite a stretch to claim that voters are being "overridden" when the party moves to field a viable candidate who can actually win in November.

Insisting that a compromised candidate stay on the ballot just to "make a statement" for the sake of a purist defeat, is something that treats politics like an abstract game rather than something with massive, real-world consequences.