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comment by user-inactivated

    "Grassroots candidates" are a convenient fiction. People like Randy Bryce show up now and then, but they aren't connected to the right people or channels, so they can't leverage any of the existing infrastructure that the parties have in place.

Explains the "Bernie isn't/wasn't even a Democrat" discussion susinctly.