Caucus is also one of two ways state branches of political parties can nominate a person to be a candidate for election (the other being a primary). The author

Caucus is also one of two ways state branches of political parties can nominate a person to be a candidate for election (the other being a primary). The author likely lives in a state where such a thing happens (both parties use primaries where I live, but the term is not unfamiliar at all). https://th.usembassy.gov/primaries-caucuses-differences/ https://th.usembassy.gov/primaries-caucuses-differences/ You might want to tone down the hyperbolic aggression. It isn't the author's fault for using a word in a fitting analogy just because you're not familiar with it.