The DNC?

Pelosi and Schumer? Remember, the guys who gave Trump everything he wanted? Huge defense budget increases? Funds for the child concentration camps on the border? But Pelosi ripped up a piece of paper, so she's brave.

I lived for thirty years in the US. I don't live in the US anymore, and I've never been a citizen, but the Democratic primaries were just a laughingstock in Europe, at least amongst educated people.

Two progressive candidates started to make progress. Then the DNC decided without explanation to break all its own rules. In the middle of the campaign, they suddenly dropped in an ultra-right-wing candidate - an act unprecedented in US election history.

Bloomberg made his intentions crystal-clear - he felt the Democrats had moved too far to the left. He spent half a billion dollars to get just one vote, but he got exactly what he wanted. Sudden Biden was no longer the right-wing candidate but a centrist one.

Changing the rules in the middle of the game is cheating. The DNC didn't even bother to explain why they were doing it. No explanation was necessary; it's cheating.

Yes, yes, I understand that the DNC is a private and opaque organization that has reserved the right to change its rules at any time, even secretly, with no explanation, and has repeatedly argued its right to do just that in court.

But why is that OK? Why is it set up that way in the first place? Just because it's legal absolutely doesn't make it honest!

People outside America mostly consider US "primaries" and "elections" to be complex farces where it's impossible to tell what is gross incompetence and what is actual cheating - because this is how you present it to us, and you act as if that's how elections are supposed to be.