I remember the Hilary PUMA voters protesting Obama’s victory in 2008, but I don’t remember them saying it was rigged.
We’re years removed from 2016 and 2020, and yet both the far left and far right are accusing democrats of rigging elections. NOBODY cares about who dropped out and endorsed someone, or the media wanting one candidate over the other, or Dominion Voting Machines, or the fallacy that illegals are voting. It’s getting ridiculous, the people who vote are ADULTS who can think for themselves.
If anything, you could make an argument that the system was rigged against Hillary, she got more votes than Bernie, then went onto the general and got more votes than Trump, and didn’t become president. If this was vice versa, you’d never hear the end of it from the Bernie or Trump cults online.
We know, in 2016, thanks to the leaked emails, that there was collusion between Clinton and the DNC to back burner Sanders.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774/
Does that rise to the level of “rigged”? No. But the DNC definitely put their thumb on the scale for Clinton.
In the end though, it does kind of make sense. Sanders is an Independent and only claims to be a Democrat when running for President because he knows an Independent run is a dead end.
Why would the DNC want a non-Democrat heading the party?