I think this is, and HAS to be about more than the age of those at the top of the party.  Nor is it about the "Fractures" in the party.  There is serious corruption at the top here: corruption that so many, for so long, have been willing to ignore, even as they screech about the (many) flaws in their opposition party.

I think that party politics in the us is on the cusp of a new direction: but which way to go?   BOTH parties need to rebuild, from the ground up.  The question will be the foundation upon which they build.  Are the dems going to hold with the mentality that results in ads"workers needed, cisgendered males need not apply?"  Is this what that party has become?  

I suspect that one (of many) drivers for last year's election is that voters are looking for something different.  We want a system that works.  Wednesday, I heard a report that in the LA area, there registered voters add up to 144% of the total voting age population in the city.  Nobody seems to care anymore...