Snubbed by Dnc royalty wanting to play it safe.

Some of this outcome will depend on how effectively they execute. But let's say they do. Then. in the paraphrased words of JFK:

"He who makes reform impossible. makes revolution inevitable."

Now that isn't a pretty future, or a nice future. But that's what happens when a people resigns itself to performing democracy instead of protecting it.

If it was, you'd have to argue how that only got to impact results in the past 5 years. It's more likely to be an environmental factor. If only we could point to something that has changed in the past 5-10 years...