What the media won’t say is that the Democrat Party has become too obviously corrupt. They cheat so much so often that they can’t even pretend not to cheat anymore. Breaking rules and deciding the end justifies the means has become so ingrained in them that they can’t be trusted to tell you who won Iowa or anywhere else.
This is precisely what happened.
After screwing over their ultra socialist base the last time around by cramming Hillary down the throats of a ton of Democrat voters who thought they had a choice and tried to push Bernie... the first thing the Democrats do during the very first primary of the next election cycle is blow up the entire primary because their establishment (we call them the cabal) won’t allow anyone to have a turn that isn’t a vetted insider who has as much to lose as the other top corrupt leaders.
The end result? Right out of the gate at the very START of the election season they have already convinces a huge swath of their own Democrat voters that their entire party process IS and HAS BEEN rigged for ages and their votes and desires are meaningless.
That was just about the absolute most stupid thing they could possibly have done while trying to keep a group of people they have been heavily manipulating strung along. They STOPPED stringing them along and outright told them to “Sit down, shut up and let us decide the nominee for you. We are in control and we know best, not you. In fact, you can’t even have a RESULT during this primary if it isn’t the kind of result we want.”
Somewhere Machiavelli is shaking his head in dismay.