Did the people running not get out and vote against this horror?

No. It was the assholes who couldn’t bear to let Democrats be less than pure for ten seconds so that we can get time to fix shit. Great job. As everyone and their dog tried to explain to them at every turn, now we’re all fucked. We all look forward to 3.5 years from now when we get to do the whole fucking thing over again and introduce even worse ridiculous idiocy into government, presuming they haven’t just openly rigged everything by then, which is a bit of a pipe dream. But they’ll never be mean to Bernie again! So - win?