it's insane that you guys are playing stupid about this. let me tell you what happened, and you tell me what's implausible
after the 2008 primary that was also "her turn", hillary agreed to gracefully bow out of the race (note that it was later than bernie did in 2016). at that point, as her consolation prize, the wheels were set in motion so that in 2016 she wouldn't face the inconvenience of any democratic opposition. she used the clinton political machine to grease all the right people, and the higher ups of the party came to the conclusion that it would be her turn in 2016. the superdelegates were all bribed and pledged, and everyone in the Democratic party got the memo that hillary was the candidate in 2016, and running against her was not gonna result in a victory. that explains why zero democrats turned out to run, as opposed to this year when we have 10 prominent democrats running
i didn't actually think you clowns thought 2016 was a fair and open primary, and not just a symbolic gesture