What the adled sachems of the Democratric party don’t get is that if they hound Sanders out of the race you can bet your bippy that his supporters are not coming out to vote for Hilllary.
And one of the causes of the Democrats’ vanishing presence on the national legislative scene is that their traditional electorates are so disgusted by the leadership’s craven incompetence that they’ve cased to bestir themselves to the polls.
That is why Pelosi presided over three humdinger House Armageddons over the past five years.
And for this she is rewarded with (permanent?) Minority leadership over and over again.