Is that why the DNC chair started hyping up Mamdani last year as soon as he won his primary?
The DNC’s actual function is to run the presidential nomination, so right now in a non-presidential year with a Republican president the DNC chair is mostly just a figurehead to hype up the base, and institutional power is with Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC and Chuck Schumer and the DSCC. That’s why you have a pattern of alternating progressive and centrist DNC chairs. When Democrats lose the presidential election they put in Tom Perez or Ken Martin to keep donations coming and tide them over while they’re out of power, then once there’s a Democratic president they put in Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jaime Harrison to behead all those who insult Israel.
“DNC” as shorthand for establishment Dems became common back in 2016 when the DNC was very tightly integrated into the Hillary Clinton campaign and was the main conservative power center in the Democratic party. That’s not true all the time but the way power works inside the Democratic party is deliberately swampy and confusing to stop you from putting an easy name to the problem.
and institutional power is with Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC and Chuck Schumer and the DSCC
They were both lame ducks the second Martin became chair.
They got their positions and people listened to them because if not the DNC would cut off funding to entire states at a time…
Like, why do you think as soon as the new chair was set, everyone stopped caring what those two say?
And the DCCC and DSCC never did anything, neoliberals are trying to gaslight people I to thinking those are important, because neoliberals still control those.
The DNC’s actual function is to run the presidential nomination, so right now in a non-presidential year with a Republican president the DNC chair is mostly just a figurehead to hype up the base, and institutional power is with Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC and Chuck Schumer and the DSCC. That’s why you have a pattern of alternating progressive and centrist DNC chairs. When Democrats lose the presidential election they put in Tom Perez or Ken Martin to keep donations coming and tide them over while they’re out of power, then once there’s a Democratic president they put in Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jaime Harrison to behead all those who insult Israel.
“DNC” as shorthand for establishment Dems became common back in 2016 when the DNC was very tightly integrated into the Hillary Clinton campaign and was the main conservative power center in the Democratic party. That’s not true all the time but the way power works inside the Democratic party is deliberately swampy and confusing to stop you from putting an easy name to the problem.
They were both lame ducks the second Martin became chair.
They got their positions and people listened to them because if not the DNC would cut off funding to entire states at a time…
Like, why do you think as soon as the new chair was set, everyone stopped caring what those two say?
And the DCCC and DSCC never did anything, neoliberals are trying to gaslight people I to thinking those are important, because neoliberals still control those.