a big takeaway from all of the Biden drama is that huge swathes of the public — including reasonably engaged people — think that political parties are a small cabal of elites who select candidates by hand
One surprising takeaway from Trump's ascendance for me was this idea that the parties are cabals that control the candidates and that primaries are ineffective or rigged. The GOP loathed Trump, and he rolled over them on the backs of his voters.
