Inside Hillary Clintons Secret Takeover of the DNC (By DONNA BRAZILE November 02, 2017)

[Jim Lane]

340. Were "Bernie and his gang" offered the same deal that the Clinton campaign got?

You write, "Berniecrats came charging in on Primary night wanting to be in charge of everything that Democratic workers had been busting bums to build in the previous two years." That's ridiculous. There was a contest for the nomination, with five different candidates. Adherents of each candidate wanted their candidate to be the nominee. That doesn't equate to "be in charge of everything" or anywhere close.

There were Democratic workers who'd been toiling away for two years. And therefore what? We should cancel all the primaries and caucuses and have the nominee chosen by vote of the people who could show that they'd done enough work for the party?

There was a time when the nominee was chosen by the party bosses. Beginning about a hundred years ago, there developed a system of primaries and caucuses, under which the predominant voice in choosing the nominee is that of the people who vote -- regardless of whether they meet your standards of having done enough for the party in the previous two years. I personally think that the current system is an improvement over what we used to have.