4 January 2017
Hillary’s losers hired to run Democratic war room
File this under How to Commit Political Suicide. The Democratic National Committee, reports the Washington Post’s Phillip Rucker, is staffing its new war room with Democratic establishment operatives who helped Hillary lose the election.
The DNC’s new communications and research operation, to be staffed by former aides to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, will be one of several efforts from across the Democratic firmament to take on Trump, including the office of Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), the Center for American Progress and American Bridge.
American Bridge is a superpac created by David Brock, a Democratic incarnation of the brass-knuckled Republican operative, Lee Atwater. If there’s anything that’s too lowdown for Brock, it has yet to make an appearance.
The war room’s priorities?
Key priorities for the new DNC war room will be to shine a spotlight on Trump’s conflicts of interest with his business enterprises as well as on Russia’s alleged interference during last year’s campaign. U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia hacked DNC emails, as well as the private email account of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, to influence the election in Trump’s favor.
In other words, Democrats are devoting the war room not to saving Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps, and the Affordable Care Act, but to proving that Hillary’s loss was not her own damn fault.
Hillary, her campaign’s leaders, and assorted supporters and sycophants, attribute her loss to three factors, either singularly or in combination:
- Meddling by Russia.
- James Comey’s late November letter.
- Bernie Sanders, who allegedly poisoned the millennial vote.
In other words, her divisive identity politics strategy was sound. Her tactics were brilliant. But she was a victim of skullduggery. She wuz robbed! Maybe even stabbed in the back. Therefore, the remedy is expelling Russian spies, excoriating James Comey, ensuring that Bernie Sanders never runs for President again, and reassuring the Democratic Party that it doesn’t need to change.
The war room is not a response to the clear and present danger of reactionary legislation being whooped through a Congress controlled by radical, heartless, Republicans. Instead, it’s a continuation of the campaign against Donald Trump, a denial of the reality that the electoral votes have been counted and that he will become President on 20 January. It’s also political suicide, the only thing Democrats still do well.