We are about to witness the largest disenfranchisement of registered voters in any state primary

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13. I grew up thinking peope were born democrats and that the party always took back strays

That, of course, was a silly thing to think, and life straightened out my understanding.

This rule change is authoritarian and seems just like the back room kaniving behavior we'd expect from DWS & Co. It's a poorly thought out authoritarian application of power to manipulate the primary process.

Voters can be expected to react in a typically human way: they will take offense when party rules disenfranchise them, and they'll distance themselves from the thing that hurt them. Nothing screams for change like broadly recognized mistreatment and disaffection.

That's not a good thing for a party that's already shrinking. It's especially not good for a party where half the voting base seems to think the organization has gone far astray and needs a political revolution's worth of reform.