Yep.. The party ELITE lay a huge hand on the results... NOT the voters...
Those superdelegates were all the rock stars and the wounded warriors of the party battles.. It was so blatantly crooked and dishonest that even the Sandinistas in charge of the DNC now felt they had to reform the super delegate issue.... And they made some wimpy changes to make it LESS like a Politburo election in the old Soviet Union....
You had about 3 or 4 shake-ups in upper mgt at the DNC since then and a couple bloody purges... And this deal with Tulsi Gabbard is NAKED RETRIBUTION for her crime of crippling a front-runner on stage at a debate....
Or it's a realization that you aren't going to have an effective debate including a bunch of people who are only polling at single digits getting five minutes of speaking time.
The thing was the Superdelegates didn't cheat Commie Bernie. Commie Bernie got 3 million less votes in the primaries than Hillary did. Period.
Frankly, if something was a ripoff, it was that Hillary actually DID get more votes in 2008, but the delegate allocation and Superdelegates made Obama the nominee.
But the underlying problem... Most people don't vote in primaries at all, and usually, only about three states matter - before the minor candidates run out of money and all get weeded out.