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How is Schuner not considered a generational failure after 2024?
They lost a supermajority to a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and the star of the Epstein files.
Do you remember the 2016 DNC convention shenanigans?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
The committee holds all the power in there, and the DNC is about as from "Democratic" as you could find. Fuck the super-delegate system, etc. etc. etc.
To play devil's advocate, the super-delegate system wasn't decisive in Hillary's victory. Jacobin has a good article on this that's for some reason a pain in the ass to find, but the short of it is that 2020 was actually worse on the ratfucking front. Aside from the usual bullshit with mainstream media and funding, one thing they did was be deliberately irresponsible with primary dates in the middle of the pandemic to depress turnout, which favored Biden at the cost of literally getting their constituents killed.
And 2024 was basically a kingmaker play when there was an actual convention coming up after they convinced Biden to step down. Could have had a democratic selection of the candidate then, but fuck no.
"Primaries are when you get to challenge from the left!"
DNC:
The current DNC Chair supported progressive candidates.
The DNC isn't the same DNC is was in 2016. Or 2020. Or 2024.
good then it can be further not like then by kicking shumer and jefferies out of their chairs!
Congress makes that decision. If you have a democratic representativenin the house or Senate. Call them. Write them a letter. Go to their local office in your city if you can.
The current DNC chair supports taking ~~bribes~~ donations from “good billionaires”, it’s the same DNC as always but with a fresh vaneer of progressive ideals.