Democratic Primaries

They didn't have the numbers they thought they did. They never did, and never were going to get their pie-in-the-sky high turnout for their poser revolution. Because they were, as always, shockingly ignorant of how to read basic polling.

Just look at their worst failure, overrating the youth vote:

They assumed that ALL young people would vote for them. They didn't bother to look at how 18-29 year olds voted in the 2016 election. They didn't pay attention to how 37% of them voted for Assholini.

They also were so naive that they never considered what 37% voting conservative said about how the other 53% would shake out. It never even occurred to them that not all of even the 53% would be "progressives." They would be on a continuum--same as any other demographic. So there would be some centrists, moderate Dems and somewhat liberal Dems in their ranks, too, and not in small numbers, either--same as any other demographic. Would the youth vote skew more liberal, overall? Yeah, sure, but not by all that much more than, say, African-Americans--and not as far left as the berner fairy tale believed they would.

This spectrum of voters can be applied to any demographic you care to name, and the results will be the same. Of the D-leaning independents and Democrats, most of them weren't on the "progressive" end of the spectrum. The vast majority of them were somewhat liberal or closer, if not at, the middle.

The numbers never were there for the supposed revolution--and that's BEFORE getting to the youth vote's piss-poor participation numbers. That's what the berners never got. And that is why they failed.