Right, it was the 'voters' who 'booted out' Sanders. He rejected only one group of objectionable people - and those people would NEVER vote for Clinton. O'Malley was out long before-  so they would simply not vote at all - and have no impact on the end result.

Every party in history has had people whose support they would rather not have, because anybody who WOULD have it has to live with being associated with those people. Nothing special for the ANC in that. Trump was a case in point - he chose NOT to reject the grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan supporting him - and had to deal with being associated with the KKK's ideas. He didn't mind - that tells you all you need to know about him (that he still won isn't a good thing, it proves how many people in America are quite *okay* with being associated with the KKK - which is tragic).

And the Sun King was perhaps the most beloved French Monarch of all time. His successor lost his head for being so UNLIKE him not, for being like him.