 The Democratic Party in particular does not benefit from having a shutdown, closed down, narrow stage managed process. In fact, historically, the Democratic Party has benefited most when it's opened up its process, as it did in 1948, when they allowed a debate on civil rights. And that debate led to a civil rights plank, one that Harry Truman himself didn't really want. But that plank was almost certainly essential to his reelection to the presidency that year.