The Democratic National Committee has scheduled its first March debate for the evening of the 15th. That’s a Sunday, and it’s likely another intentional entry in a pattern indicating that it doesn’t want you watching its debates this year, just as much as it didn’t want you to watch them in 2016.

Thanks to Russian hackers and the DNC’s abysmal cybersecurity, we now know what everyone suspected at the time of the 2016 Democratic primary. The DNC wanted a coronation for Hillary Clinton, so it prevented Bernie Sanders from gaining debate viewership by both limiting the number of debates and repeatedly scheduling them on weekends. The party is doing the same thing now, but the motives are less obvious. It’s not because the establishment has coalesced around a surging candidate — perhaps it’s because it’s in a bind in choosing any of them.