Primary season should be shortened. Dates should be distributed evenly over the period, with specific states randomly assigned their dates by draw two years prior.
This idiocy of giving the same “early primary” states enormous influence on who the candidates will be every year needs to stop.
It plays, for example a big role in corporate welfare for farmers and ethanol producers. Iowa.
The early primary system is an anachronism just like the WH press corps. Both are holdovers from the era of trains when the candidates and the media could only be in one place and travel was time-consuming.
Both sides learned to use the system to convince the gullible that their choice was the only choice and we have see the disastrous results.