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How has he not been ejected from the Democratic Party
On top of the other replies there's no mechanism at any stage of the party to excel someone from it. There's also no way to stop a board of elections from allowing someone to be registered as a Democrat. If I cared about Dems maybe I'd push for this but... meh
The DNC agrees with him
He's just this term's Sinema/Manchin. The Dems always need a guy to take the heat for voting for the shit they want but their voters don't.
The whole things insane to me that the party just allows people to vote against what it wants, like whenever it happens in the UK the party will just immediately sideline that person and minimise any power they have and threaten them with expulsion for it (everyone but the greens exclusively uses this against MPs voting to the left of what the party wants, but like still, it wouldn't be accepted as an excuse)
What party wants and what it announces it wants are two different things.
Usually the Democrats have an anointed rotating villain, but they’re fine having one out of brain damage.
I'm actually not sure if there even is a mechanism to do that, it doesn't seem to be structured like how basically the rest of the world understands a political party.
I'm sure they could kick him out of fundraising networks at minimum to generate headlines, but they won't do that because they don't want to
Yeah they could cut off NGP access and not allow him into fundraisers.
Yup, for sure
Gotta have a rotating villain ready. Only Republicans can have things done, and dems are the protest vote too bogged down by weaponized incompetence. Don’t want to accidentally improve someone’s life, now do we?