Hillary Clinton

of a "rigged system". They begin to believe that the only explanation for the other side winning is a conspiracy by the "powers that be", which makes it impossible to reconcile with the loss and move forward. It's a self-serving, and very dangerous, mindset to foster among one's flock. This is the damage Sanders has done: he has sown not only discontent with the outcome, but a sense of illegitimacy about the Democratic Party nominating process itself, coupled with calls for "revolution". In brief: The party is corrupt, therefore we must blow the whole thing up to save it.

Cries of "cheating" and "theft" will abound no matter what the reason for Hillary's victory, as they have after every other contest Sanders has lost, so we may as well enjoy the victory and tune out all of the other noise.