The Bernie movement's obsession with corruption, consent-manufacturing, and "theories of power" seems to bias them toward believing that electoral outcomes are determined by the shadowy machinations of party bosses, rather than by voters simply voting for what they want.

As if the voting decisions of millions of Democratic primary voters could be simply dictated by a few phone calls.

Time to reread Hofstadter, I guess. https://www.amazon.com/Paranoid-Style-American-Politics/dp/0307388441

The Bernie people seem to be assuming that since Biden didn't have a lot of money and seems uninspiring to them, that his success must have been due to the dark magic of the DNC.

Nowhere is there room for the possibility that voters simply made up their minds on their own.