Note That The Democratic Party Got Nearly Everything It Wanted Out Of The 2016 Election

They couldn't quite wrestle another loathsome Clinton piece of shit into the White House against the least popular Republican candidate in modern history, but the Democratic Party establishment (just barely and so far) maintained their control of the process, pushed their hard-right agenda as a purported opposition to Trump and/or the Republicans, and (again, just barely) stopped the Sanders campaign and prevented any movement of the party toward the center.  The Democratic Party did not want to win the presidency unless it won with Clinton.  The Democratic Party did not care about winning more than it cared about maintaining control.  Many Democrats may have cared about winning, about defeating Trump, and about growing their power in government with a popular, centrist candidate like Bernie Sanders, but for the Democratic Party, obviously, winning was never the main goal.