I'm not sure it's something to cheer about from either side.
First, the DNC argument before the court was that the Democratic National Committee did not have to have an open, fair, or Democratic process to choose their nominee. The argument that the Court had no authority to enforce the DNC Charter was victorious, but really, do you want to win that argument?
DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms
The full transcript is interesting. The DNC lawyers argued that they have a first amendment right to deceive you the supporters into believing you have a voice in the process of picking a nominee.
So yes, cheer the victory, the Bernie folks were shot down, and they're going to run right out and back the Democratic Party now aren't they? Well not so far they aren't. Fundraising numbers for the DNC is down big time.
This is actually the crux of the Democratic Party's problem. you think that anyone who doesn't agree with the Republicans is automatically a supporter of the Democrats. Not so far they aren't.
Yes. Everybody has always known that the DNC has always had the right to chose any candidate they wanted. It's exactly the same as the RNC in that way. Neither party is obligated to do anything they don't want to do. The RNC could have given the nomination to ANYONE. They weren't obligated to give it to Trump.
Yeah, when trying to defend something, don't insist that everyone else could do it.
The RNC did not want Trump. A large number of Republicn officials, elected and part of the Party establishment still don't want Trump. The RNC started the Opposition Research when it was painfully obvious that Trump was winning. They ended that research when Trump was the nominee chosen by the voters in the process. In other words the Republicans let the voters choose the nominee that everyone thought was going to lose.
The Democratic National Commitee decided to trick the voters, trick the supporters into thinking it was a fair and open process. It was grass roots baby. Trust us. When that became apparent that it wasn't, the Democratic Party shrugged and said you were the fools for thinking it was going to be open, and actually allow the voters to pick the candidate.
Now, let me tell you how it affected me, a person who voted Democratic my entire life. First, I swore I would not vote for Hillary about the day before she declared her nomination. I knew too much about her and her scheming to give her my vote. But I was still willing to vote for other Democrats. In fact, that was my original plan. Vote against Hillary and see if I could help get some Democrats onto the Local, State, and Statewide offices. Not to mention the House and Senate.
Over time, that changed. That changed when it became apparent that the Democratic National Committee was not playing fair. Hillary would have probably won the nomination anyway, the DNC was not taking any chances. They manipulated everything to make sure that Bernie lost. Bernie was supposed to be like Trump the joke candidate. Only the people were not laughing. They liked what Bernie had to say, and a lot liked what Trump had to say.
So about that time I decided to withhold my vote from any Democrat. I decided if the party was that corrupt, they did not deserve my vote. I had voted in every election since 1988, and I had voted Democratic every single time since that first election. Now, I was walking away from the party that I had supported my entire life. Not because I liked what the Republicans were. I think that Trump is wrong on a number of issues. But because I could at least say that Trump won fair and square.
The Democratic Party ran a sideshow pretending to be the party of the people. The Republicans accepted a terrible candidate because that's what the people wanted. The Democrats foisted a terrible candidate on the people pretending that she was their choice.
The Curtain fell, the Wizard was exposed. Then the emails were released, and that confirmed my belief, and my decision. The Democratic Party is free to pick anyone they want. I am free to vote against them in every election to come. I will, until they live up to their own charter, and actually become the party of the people they used to be.