Now that the Democratic Party’s funders, elected officials, and apparatchiks have successfully quelled Bernie Sanders’s insurgent campaign, his supporters are looking for a way forward.

Sanders argues that they should vote for Clinton, hold her accountable for enacting the Democratic National Committee platform — which he calls the most progressive in the party’s history — and donate to his new organization, Our Revolution, to back progressive candidates in down-ballot elections. Their ultimate goal is to take over the Democratic Party and transform it from inside.

But the much-lauded platform is — to quote Hamlet — “more honored in the breach than the observance,” and any attempt to take over the Democratic Party at a local level will run into the same roadblocks Sanders encountered at the national one.