So far, the election campaign season of 2015 and 2016 has been unprecedented for the Democratic Party. Before and after Hillary Clinton was crowned the Party’s presidential nominee, which was all but predicted more than a year ago, scandal after scandal has washed over the Party like larger and larger waves threatening to engulf the Titanic.

With each successive scandal, more and more voters are beginning to scratch their heads and wonder if we aren’t witnessing a slow-motion sinking of the party of FDR and JFK as reports of actions that would have been unthinkable a generation ago continue to surface.

At the same time, the two “grifters” that form the head of the Clinton “crime family” — as some better-known political writers refer to Bill and Hillary Clinton — have grown bolder and bolder and appear to know no such thing as shame as they seem to enjoy prosecutorial immunity under the administration of President Barack Obama and his Attorney General lackey, Loretta Lynch.

Reports that FBI Director James Comey has a much cozier relationship with the Clintons than has previously been reported continue to roll in — Comey was a board member and director of HSBC’s Swiss banking arm, which is tightly connected to the Clinton Foundation and has been guilty of money laundering for terrorist regimes and drug cartels in the past.

Billionaire HSBC clients such as Frank Giustra, Richard Caring and Jeffrey Epstein have donated more than $80 million to the Clinton Foundation, and it’s highly likely that anyone serving on the board of HSBC would want to preserve the reputations of the bank’s clients.

In multiple state primaries and caucuses, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) under former chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz was accused of mishandling delegate voting and arranging for superdelegates for Hillary Clinton, allowing her to assemble a numerical superiority over her archival Bernie Sanders despite Sanders’ drawing much larger audiences at his rallies and much more social media attention.

Under Wasserman-Schultz, media coverage of Sanders in conjunction with Democratic events and debates was muted, and the debates themselves (of which there were only six, compared to 26 in 2008) mostly took place on Saturday nights when the smallest possible television audiences would be tuned in.

Charges of vote fraud surfaced and were substantiated in New York and California, the latter of which were proven in a Stanford University study after Bernie Sanders conceded the state and endorsed his former bitter enemy. Knowing what we know now, however, it may have been too early for Sanders to throw in the towel.

Documents obtained by Wikileaks (potentially from DNC staffer Seth Rich, who died mysteriously days after Wikileaks got ahold of them) showed that there were numerous misdeeds being engaged in at the DNC, from special dinners with Hillary Clinton for Party donors contributing $200,000 or more to cutting off the Sanders campaign’s access to valuable voter database files. Money that was supposed to be used by the DNC to support down-ticket candidates was illicitly channeled into fundraising efforts supporting Clinton.

All of this proves that the DNC violated its own charter by not being impartial regarding its candidates and arranging for Hillary to be the ultimate nominee. Emails published by Wikileaks show that strategizing for the latter was being actively carried out in March of 2015 — before Bernie Sanders had even declared his candidacy.

Because of all this, class-action lawsuits have now been filed against the DNC and Wasserman-Schultz, and voters have realized that the concerns of the DNC are far from the same as those of its constituents.

On top of all of this, of course, are the scandals Hillary Clinton herself is involved in. First, there was the Benghazi incident — in which Clinton was accused of lying about the reasons for the attack on the Libyan consulate in which American Ambassador Chris Stevens died, including lying directly to the relatives of the men who were killed in the raid.

Then there was the Clinton Foundation, which has been accused of massive corruption and of being a “slush fund” and “private piggy bank” for the Clintons via donations from shadowy contributors who sought political favors and tax write-offs.

The Clinton Foundation has been subject to multiple investigations, including by the FBI, but with FBI Director Comey’s links to the Clintons (see above), a special prosecutor would likely be needed to get to the bottom of all the wrongdoing involved in this decades-long case.

And finally, there was the email scandal, which refuses to die, having expanded through four different probes and now possibly incorporating a fifth whereby Clinton could be charged with lying to Congress. In this affair, Clinton, as Secretary of State, kept a private server at home to handle her classified government emails, in violation of federal law. Clinton admitted deleting more than 30,000 of the messages, and only now are the contents of many of them becoming public.

For the Democrats to proclaim that these are merely minor bureaucratic details instead of massive crimes is to completely de-legitimize the party which in the past has tarred and feathered Republicans for lesser or equal charges (think: Iran-Contra, the Valerie Plame Affair and Watergate; in the latter case, Hillary Clinton herself served as an aide to the Congressional committee working to impeach Republican former President Richard Nixon).

Americans who’ve been polled on the subject have an almost universal disgust for Clinton, giving her record-high unfavorability ratings for a Democrat of 67 percent or more, saying that as a candidate she is “untrustworthy” and “dishonest” in large numbers.

But less spoken about is Americans’ increasing disgust for the Democratic Party itself. If a populist candidate such as Bernie Sanders can be absolutely railroaded by the Party, which is shown to have favored the less popular and more connected candidate Clinton, then it’s all but clear that the powers behind the scenes running the Party are intractably corrupt.

Even if Americans “hold their nose” (as perennial leftist political critic Noam Chomsky has claimed he would) to vote for Hillary Clinton in this election, it may be with the ultimate conviction that this will be the last time a Democratic candidate manipulates them this way again.

As it is, Democratic turnout in this election is predicted to be at record low levels for the last 10 years, and more voters than ever are leaving the Democrats to register as independent voters rather than be held hostage to draconian party rules that force them to vote for candidates who are all but criminals.