Classic Communist tactic. Split the party. Expel the “other” faction. Keep doing it until there is total loyalty and homogeneity of ideology and no questions about acts or words of the general secretary or the central committee. The American Communist Party had periodic such purges and anathematized those forced out.
Leon Trotsky.
What’s going on here is the ‘mainstream’ of the Democrats backed by big corporate and banking money resisting a takeover attempt by honest Progressive Leftist outsiders.
The Republican Party ‘mainstream’ has traditionally done this to Conservative outsiders, Libertarian followers of Ron Paul and so on.
The Corporatist System is about big business and big banking control of both parties and that’s what was going on here n in the case of the Democrats, the elites keeping the outsiders out.
The CPUSA supported H->! .