What can I add to what’s already been said about the genius’s latest moves. We are watching a fairly rapid shift from an administration with a Nazi center surrounded by an establishment cover to an all Nazi.
But I digress before even starting. I’m writing to sound yet another warning about the coming blue wavelet. The DCCC is doing all it can to make sure it doesn’t happen, and, if it does, that the Democrats will proceeds to disappoint the very people who made it happen by producing a Congress full of Blue Dogs (I know, the term is unfair to dogs). This time I’m not passing on something from Crooks & Liars, Down with Tyranny, or Driftglass. This time the alarm comes from Newsweek. The title of the piece says it all: WHY ARE DEMOCRATS BACKING A FORMER NRA-SUPPORTER OVER A FIRST-TIME BLACK WOMAN CANDIDATE?, but lets see some of the details:
When Tanzie Youngblood announced her congressional bid for New Jersey’s 2nd District, she thought she’d easily win the support of local, and even national, Democrats. A year with a record number of women running for office, a promising blue wave and the #MeToo movement seemed perfect for her progressive campaign.
Youngblood—a retired school teacher and first-time black female candidate—figured the primary race might get crowded after 12-time Republican incumbent Frank LoBiondo announced his retirement in November. But she never anticipated that the ones attempting to sink her campaign wouldn’t be her primary opponents, but the Democratic establishment itself.
Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee threw its weight behind Jeff Van Drew, a New Jersey state senator with a 100 percent rating from the National Rifle Association. Van Drew once accepted a $1,000 donation from the group, and has been dubbed one of the “most conservative Democrats” in the New Jersey legislature, a moniker he’s earned for having co-sponsored legislation to bring back the state’s death penalty for certain murder convictions, and require parental notification for minors seeking abortions. He was also one of just two state Senate Democrats to vote against same-sex marriage in 2012.
“They did me dirty,” Youngblood said.
She alleged that some local officials have told her that she’ll never win the primary contest—it’s Van Drew’s turn.
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It’s not just Youngblood—candidates in House races across the country are running up against the Democratic machine. In Texas, the DCCC launched a full-scale attack against progressive candidate Laura Moser in the weeks leading up to the primaries, publishing an opposition research report on its website against the first-time candidate, who faced off last week against six other Democrats vying to unseat Republican incumbent Representative John Culberson.
In California, where Democrats are desperate to unseat Republican incumbent Jeff Denham in a toss-up House race, there’s a similar divide between national Democrats—who are reportedly encouraging a bid from farmer and beekeeper Michael Eggman, who’s lost to Denham twice before—and grassroots progressives, many of whom would prefer first-timer Dotty Nygard.
Really, the Russians have no need to interfere in our next election. The Democrats will do their dirty work for them.
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