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You might be right, they might block her. I've been shocked at how much they are willing to protect themselves from Progressives, but that's not why Bernie never got the nomination. Bernie never got the a Democratic nomination because he's NOT a Democrat.
Bernie is an Independent, and has always been a staunch Independent. He may caucus with the Dems, but he doesn't fundraise for them, he doesn't share his campaign money with them, he doesn't support them. Over the decades, he has been nearly as critical of Democrats as he was of Republicans.
The Presidential nomination is the greatest gift a party can bestow upon a party member, and they are going to give it to a loyal member who has worked hard for the party, NOT an outsider who is just hijacking the party's infrastructure to use it to ride to victory, and support policies that the party doesn't support.
Bernie wasn't nominated because he wasn't a Democrat. AOC is a loyal Democrat, and if she gets the primary votes, and the DNC still won't nominate her, then that's the end of the Democratic Party. Dems shouldn't be so worried about that, the Republican Party died about a decade ago, and became the MAGA Party. It happens, parties die, and new ones pop up.
The party rewarded Leiberman with a VP nod. He wasn't a member of the party either, but I guess he returned the favor by blocking the public option for them.
Or we'll see you come up with a new excuse for the party ignoring its own rules again.
First of all, VP isn't president. Also, Lieberman had been a Democrat for most of his career, except the very end when he turned Independent, so maybe there was some dumb Democratic idea that this would bring him back to the fold.
In any case, it didn't work, and they lost the race, in part because many Democratic voters weren't thrilled with Lieberman, whom many saw as a turncoat for leaving the Dems and going independent. So choosing an independent certainly didn't inspire the Dems to ignore their rules in the future.