Yesterday, Democrats enacted a landmark change in their party by diluting the power of superdelegates. This change came on the heels of nationwide outrage surrounding the 2016 primaries between Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton and the ensuing fallout. At a party meeting in Chicago, party leaders voted overwhelmingly to reduce the power of superdelegates, party bosses, and other insiders who are traditionally given a lot of sway in the nominating process. The new rules take away their vote in the first round of the nomination process. This means that these individuals only get to vote if the first round of ballots ends in a contested convention.

Jeff Cohen, co-founder of the online activist group RootsAction.org, said, “It’s a big victory for the base of the party.” Cohen went on to say, “Tom Perez realizes that he’d rather lose 10 dead-enders in the DNC than a couple million activists,” he said about the party chairman.

“We voted today to return power to the grassroots,” the DNC chairman, Tom Perez, wrote on Twitter following the vote. “Our North Star from the beginning of this process has been to grow our party, unite our party, and earn voters’ trust.”

Others, like former DNC Chairwoman Donna Brazile, were less pleased with the new rules saying, “This vote to strip superdelegates, unpledged delegates, automatic delegates, whatever you want to call us of our voice on the first ballot is inconsistent with our charter.” However, it’s understandable why voters would find Brazile’s remarks questionable when she was caught giving debate questions to the Clinton campaign during the 2016 primaries and was forced to step down from her position as DNC Chairwoman last year.

Brazile isn’t the only Democrat to have soiled the DNC image last year. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, former head of the DNC, had her own IT scandal that marred the Democrats for months. She was then forced to resign after WikiLeaks published emails from Schultz and other top ranking Democrats voicing support for the Clinton and openly bad mouthing the Sanders campaign in internal documents.

When the public learned of the inside lean Clinton had on the DNC, people began to question the authenticity of the primaries themselves. It wasn’t long before people realized that the majority of superdelegates had committed to Clinton before she announced her bid. Eventually Clinton easily wrapped up almost all of the superdelegates, making it a very one sided race.

Former Vermont Gov. and former DNC chairman, Howard Dean, cast the measure as an urgent response “to the will of grassroots voters.”Dean went on to say that many young voters, “have lost faith in our party’s nominating process, and make no mistake, this is a perception that’s cost us at the ballot box.” Yet, this change coupled with the current administration makes it hard to think a blue wave isn’t right around the corner.