What do you call it when you do the same thing over and over and expect different results? Oh yeah, the democratic party. 
-- Naomi Klein



Current Affairs/February 25, 2017

THEY MUST BE TRYING TO FAIL

By failing to appoint Keith Ellison to chair the DNC, Democrats have written their suicide note…

by NATHAN J. ROBINSON

At this point, one has to conclude that the national Democratic Party has a death wish. Given the opportunity to throw a minuscule bone to the Sanders progressives, the DNC declined. By giving its chairmanship to former Labor Secretary Tom Perez, instead of Rep. Keith Ellison, party leaders have shown that they must be actively desiring electoral oblivion.

The Ellison/Perez fight had been portrayed as a re-litigation of the Sanders/Clinton primary fight. It was and it wasn’t. It was, in that Keith Ellison was endorsed by Bernie Sanders, while Tom Perez had the backing of members of the party’s more traditional establishment. But that’s also an oversimplification. After all, Chuck Schumer, not exactly a socialist insurgent, had endorsed Ellison, and the political differences between Ellison and Perez were not nearly so obvious as those between Sanders and Clinton. (READ MORE)