This one weird trick can fix the 2028 Democratic primary

Democrats appear to be inching toward one of the biggest changes to their presidential nominating process since the advent of primaries.

Party leaders are beginning to explore whether ranked choice voting could make the 2028 primary fairer, less divisive, and better at producing a nominee who reflects the full breadth of the Democratic coalition. It’s a quiet development, but a potentially transformative one, and Axios reports that senior Democratic National Committee officials have met with reform advocates to discuss making it real.

Ranked choice voting is simple at its core. Instead of marking only a single candidate on their ballot, voters rank the candidates in order of preference—first choice, second choice, third choice, and so on. If someone wins a majority of first-choice votes