@MrWebster

don’t. No one wants to bankroll the ‘Loony Left’.

Jane Mayer writes in Dark Money, "On closer inspection, as the Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol and the Ph.D. student Vanessa Williams observed in their 2012 book, The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism, the Tea Party movement was a "mass rebellion... funded by corporate billionaires, like the Koch brothers, led by over-the-hill former GOP kingpins like Dick Armey, and ceaselessly promoted by millionaire media celebrities like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.""[2]

While promoted as a spontaneous "grassroots" movement, many of the activities of Tea Party groups were organized by corporate lobbying groups like Freedomworks and Americans for Prosperity.

https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Tea_Party

Off hand, I don't know of any progressive who has knocked off a democratic party incumbent in the primaries. However, the tea party in the gop has knocked off incumbents, some of whom were pretty high up in congressional pecking order.

Trump is the ultimate outsider. Even though the gop establishment hated his guts, he still won the nomination. There is plenty of evidence that state parties cheated Bernie like in NYC where voter rolls were purged of potential Bernie supporters.

Makes sense in a way to me. I worked way back in the day for a faction in city controlled by your proverbial democratic party machine. And they all cheated each other during the primaries. It is out democratic party machine where you get more votes for a candidate than voters in precient. Cheating each other is the DNA of the party.

Mostly is seems democrats cheat each other in primnaries, and gop cheats democrats in the general elections.

@Snode

as we remember, 30% were "removed" the night of the California primary.

I also remember thinking the Democrats had it coming and if Nixon won then it was their own fault. Too young to vote that year. I don't think I would have, even I'd been older.

H.H.Humphrey won the nomination, in spite of having not entered a single primary. 70% of the primary vote went to ant war candidates, with Humphrey running on continuing the war. The democratic party has been pining away for the good old days ever since.

@MrWebster

This caused so many people to demexit and either vote for Stein or stay home and probably cost Her the presidency. This obviously didn't bother them since they are still doing lots of shit to any progressive who is running for office. The democrats aren't taking any chance of anybody getting in between their corporate masters.

Short term and long term? Will they vote for "lesser" candidate in the general knowning their guy or gal was cheated? Given that the cheating is now openly documented and the back shenanagans revealed by outlets like this and The Intercept, I gotta think that openly cheating progressive canddiates will cause a backlash and effect turn out in the general. If a race is close, I can see the democrat losing as progressives will either not show upo or vote third party.