First off, I tend towards the left politically, but Dianne Feinstein is somewhat of a control freak. Maybe the switch to Jungle Primaries https://en.wikipedia.

First off, I tend towards the left politically, but Dianne Feinstein is somewhat of a control freak. Maybe the switch to Jungle Primaries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpartisan_blanket_primary will help resolve this in the long term.