Every time is a good time to get rid of the superdelegate system.

Even if it results in a McGovern or Carter 1980-style landslide loss, at least it won’t be as skewed between electoral and popular as this is.

If it means that Clintonian democracy will die, so be it.

If it means that outsiders will come into the Democratic Party and run it in the way Donald Trump has done, so be it.

If it means that Iowa won’t be the first or most determinative Democratic contest in the campaign season, so be it.

The optics against the superdelegate system are damning and prone to exaggeration, no matter the self-preservational intentions of those who defend superdelegates.

We can’t call for ending the Electoral College without ending the superdelegate system.

Let the chips fall where they may. End both systems.