A Report on the Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries
I think the most interesting (and perhaps hopeful) aspect here is that people now have an <i>expectation</i> of fairness in the selection of party candidates. That&#x27;s a relatively new phenomenon. In the past, I think people widely assumed that the party was biased towards individual candidates. Even now, that&#x27;s clearly the case when the sitting President is a candidate. I personally think that expecting an unbiased party structure is unrealistic, given the very nature of the organization. The party doesn&#x27;t have a product, other than its opinion. The idea that an organization of partisans only arrives at that collective opinion through primaries and caucuses seems quite naive to me.