aggiehawg said:
I just love she also managed to wreck the DNC finances too. Although the DNC Chair (who no one can even remmber his name) did the DNC no favors doing any fundraising.
So a broke and broken DNC going into 2026 midterms is a good thing. (Pardon the Martha Stewart reference.)
To be fair the DNC has been a shell for years now, it has no real power or money. The power with the Democrats comes from a small set of billionaires that fund the GOTV operations. That said they also rely on getting lots of small donors, some legit and some not. You have to remember that for a lot of Dems they are nonreligious and so they effectively "tithe" to the Democratic Party.
This story overall is something the GOP needs to lean into hard. They should find any type of corruption and magnify it. They should find some disaffected Dems and fund them and let them shout to the rooftops about how the Democrat Party takes the dollars people send in to money launder it to their friends or just flat out waste it. Certainly they did so during BLM, this is the same thing.
It will make fundraising much harder for the Dems but that's only part of the reason. It breeds hopelessness and mistrust which is even more effective. I want every time a Dem celebrity or influencer talks up a candidate for people to be thinking about how much they got paid. I want regular Dem donors to start thinking about how they can spend their money elsewhere to make an impact on issues they care about. In short I want the Dem Civil War to rage and for chaos to continue.
The Democrats have no leader now. This race was a huge blow to Obama who has been the defacto leader since he beat Hillary and prior to that it was the Clintons. Now the Democrats are back to the Pre Bill Clinton era with multiple factions fighting for power and lots of disorganization. The GOP needs to feed this.
BTW, the example of who will run in '28 shows this. Shapiro is probably the best option they have out there as the White Liberal Dem likes him and he does decent with blacks. He's someone the Progressives will hate though and he will push Muslims further away and Hispanics. Dems have a weird dynamic of having a lot of Jewish money and voters but also a lot of antisemites. Newsom is a hero of the Progressive whites but everyone else hates him. Whitmer is Kamala Part II and relies on the white liberal woman vote. The main thing is all of these groups collide and none of them appeal to working class voters really, maybe Shapiro some.
The Dems have to have the Civil War though and figure out who wins and then rebuild. It's going to be a painful process and in the meantime the window is open for the GOP to ram through just about anything they want. That's what is going to be so interesting to see if Trump can keep it together and really deliver. It's all for the taking right now.
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Ronald Reagan